Notebook: MCMLXV/III / Phillips, Tom ; Hamilton R ; Feldman M ; Cage J ; Kitaj R ; Higgins D ; Zukofsky L ; Burroughs WS., 1965
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Scope and Contents
The notebook consists of a sketches for art works, poems, articles clipped from newspapers, meetings, reminders, quotations, philosophical thoughts, and moneys due and owed Phillips. The beginning of the book has a permutation poem on the word "open," e.g., open openn opin opens openne opone oun ... The next section consists of full-length figurative drawings and notes. The middle section deals with ideas for the painting "C LOOPSEEND." This is followed by notes for an experimental music score with a reference to John Cage and a mushroom poem. On a later page, Phillips appropriates Marshall MacLuhan's "The Medium is the Massage" to "The Tedium is the Message." Such wordplay antedated his 1995 print relating to the auction of Van Goth's painting,"Irises" for 65 million dollars in NYC, "Auctions Speak Louder than Words." The last eighth of the book (1966) begins the experiments with the "Humument" format of cancelling text. The first try is cancelling words using superimposed x's of a fragment of a newspaper article to achieve the phrase, "rules without image pressure." He mentions "Treated Book, short Victorian novel, rights ended, publisher defunct with only left hand poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1965
Creator
- Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022 (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 notebook + pages (ink, ink colored, graphite, handwriting, collaged) + postcard + clippings (newspaper) (156 pages)) ; 16.1 x 10 x 1.2 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
alc. Phillips b
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 copy. General: Added by: RED; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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Main Library
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