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Dante Diary: Number LVII / Phillips, Tom., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-53958-642950

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Scope and Contents

Page 57 is titled "Dante Wins a Prize." The image on the page is an abstract watercolor with a painting of three dancing figures at the bottom left and a black and white collage of two cut-up fleurs de lys on the bottom right. In his diary Phillips writes about his childhood memory of Dante."Talking to my Mother this past Saturday confirmed a half memory: when my brother and I were collecting scrap paper and books during the war (when I must have been six or seven. )We collected a lot of books (for pulping!) and amongst them was, red and gold and by far the most spectacular which we looked through before delivering to the depot.This was Dante's Inferno: the large edition with the Gustave Dore illustrations (a book which I've since acquired and reprints of which I've plundered for collage purposes). I remembered the book and size and feel & magnificence of it but it took my mother's memory to tell me what it was." Page 58 in PVC laminate is missing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1980

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 drawing (ink, ink colored, gouache, collaged, rubberstamped, handwriting) in pvc laminate + artist box (cloth covered)) ; 26 x 29 cm, in box 39 x 44 x 5 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

alcove 2nd bedroom Phillips Dante diary box

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: London, England : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: RUTH; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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