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Dante Diary: Number 58 / Phillips, Tom., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-54046-643004

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Scope and Contents

This fifty-eighth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Sees the Light." The right hand side of this page contains Phillips' monthly plan for December 88 in which he writes that he is at Channel 4 for showing of Cantos I to VII. Also back to Palace for "still tidying up and putting cantos numbers on (in Roman numerals!! Small battle won) Peter's Bee Gun provides mist for Canto VIII. work abandoned until 1989.........." This page also contains a partial letter handwritten in Italian from Centro Dantesco in Ravenna Italy, a picture of Muybridge's stepping man and part of an article from the New York Times "Computer Is Helping Scholars Dissect Dante at Dartmouth." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1988

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 collage (paper, paint, handwriting, ink) in artist box (cloth covered)) ; 30 x 41 cm, in box 39 x 44 x 5 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

alcove 2nd bedroom Phillips Dante diary new series 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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