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The image after a painting by Raphael was created according to the proportions of the Golden Section (square root of 2). The lines making up these divisions are visible as faint black lines that have been enhanced by silkscreening a layer of clear varnish on this 31 color silkscreen print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The loose sheet announces the replacement of Tom Phillips' Terminal Grey Arrangement 1974/5 with Terminal Greys IV-VII 1971/3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Signs Ltd. of Bellenden Road have, after some adjustments I made to the prototype, produced, in laminated plastic with perspex slide, a handsome multiple of my favourite device. This comment about the work originates from Phillips' Works/Texts to 1974 (1974), p. 266. "A shop that I pass regularly on the way to the studio had a small red and white plastic sign saying C LOOPSEEND. Since the shop sold yams and sweet potatoes I assumed that this was the name of the proprietor; the double vowels suggested Dutch however and I was puzzled each time I passed it. Having seen this name for about a year and having thought it odd but probably liable to rational explanation, I suddenly came across its double in a second-hand shop in Ipswich in 1965. I was about to ask the shopkeeper whether he was any relative of his namesake in Camberwell when I noticed, in the back of the shop, many piles of similar nameplates, each bearing the inscription C LOOPSEEND. For some reason I made no enquiry in the...

Scope and Contents Signs Ltd. of Bellenden Road have, after some adjustments I made to the prototype, produced, in laminated plastic with perspex slide, a handsome multiple of my favourite device. This comment about the work originates from Phillips' Works/Texts to 1974 (1974), p. 266. "A shop that I pass regularly on the way to the studio had a small red and white plastic sign saying C LOOPSEEND. Since the shop sold yams and sweet potatoes I assumed that this was the name of the proprietor; the double vowels suggested Dutch however and I was puzzled each time I passed it. Having seen this name for about a year and having thought it odd but probably liable to rational explanation, I suddenly came across its double in a second-hand shop in Ipswich in 1965. I was about to ask the shopkeeper whether he was any relative of his namesake in Camberwell when I noticed, in the back of the shop, many piles of similar nameplates, each bearing the inscription C LOOPSEEND. For some reason I made no enquiry in the...

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Tom Phillips exhibited 'Irma', 'Peckham Heads' and 'Mapwalk' in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Beaulieu made this book by tracing a line to each letter of Abbott's book "Flatland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image after a painting by Raphael was created according to the proportions of the Golden Section (square root of 2). The lines making up these divisions are invisible in this emlarged second version of the print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print was constructed according to rules of the golden section but most of the lines have been erased even though this version is designated as the final proof. The print was not editioned but a musical piece with the same title was cokmposed in 1991. This was recorded on a compact disc in 1997, a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print was constructed according to rules of the golden section with these lines retained in gold ink. The print was not editioned but a musical piece with the same title was composed in 1991 and recorded on a compact disc in 1997. The disc is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.