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Dante Diary: Number 71 / Phillips, Tom., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-54153-643057

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Scope and Contents

This seventy-first page is titled "Coming Soon (At Last." At the bottom right Phillips writes "With a TV Dante officially scheduled for 29th July Channel 4 creaks into action...Rang Peter to see if he wants to make a contribution but he's happy to leave it to me (!)." The remainder of the paragraph concerns technical and business details with Channel 4 and Phillips' backers. The entire left side of the page is a structured drawing by Phillips for pages and screen subjects for the Dante project.The upper right corner is a torn newspaper annoucement of A TV Dante describing it as follows "Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips long in the making surrreal version of The Inferno and The Divine Comedy-29 July C4." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1990

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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