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Phillips dedication reads "for Fiona" [Phillips' wife]. In addition, "This volume is also dedicated in fond memory to the late Ruth Sackner." Marvin and Ruth Sackner togetheras collectors and friends have been the mainstayof support to A Humumentfor over thirty years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips dedication reads "for Fiona" [Phillips' wife]. In addition, "This volume is also dedicated in fond memory to the late Ruth Sackner." Marvin and Ruth Sackner togetheras collectors and friends have been the mainstayof support to A Humumentfor over thirty years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips dedication reads "for Fiona" [Phillips' wife]. In addition, "This volume is also dedicated in fond memory to the late Ruth Sackner." Marvin and Ruth Sackner togetheras collectors and friends have been the mainstayof support to A Humumentfor over thirty years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips' dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." The first revision of the book contains 50 pages in which new images have been substituted for the original ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." This fourth edition, as denoted on the dust jacket but as the third revised edition on its title page, contains about 40 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. The pages are printed as giclee printes which is a high class kind of ink jet on fine paper. A purple dust jacket covers the gold cloth covered, cardboard binding. Two humument fragment prints (Canon color copier?) are included in this special edition of the book. One print reads "the life time suspect who knew the arts connect - veil his hidden drama of suspected actors - persons and names : so the changes make the book continue." The color background surrounding a rectangle placed in the center consisting of gray-black murky figures from collaged old engravings consists of line drawn faces. The poem in this print references Tom Phillips' continuing involvement with A Humument....

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Phillips dedication reads "for Ruth and Marvin Sackner, patrons, friends who guard my work between them like book ends." This third edition, as denoted on its cover but the second revised edition as denoted on its title page, contains about 100 pages in which a new image has been substituted for the original. The cover of this book is predominantly yellow-gold rather than brown intended by the designer. It was purchased at the Dual Muse exhibition held at the Washington University Museum of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 32 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 42 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. There are two boxes labelled Vol. X. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon called for10 prints in this volume but instead it includes 42 prints. The edition size was 100 copies and 25 copies hors commerce. The pages were silkscreened by Kelpra Studio London. The colophon is not signed.Theer are two boxes labelled Vol. X. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Bernard Moxham has contributed an essay on the historical background of James Joyce's creation of "Ulysses" and several other critical interpretations of this masterful book. Tom PHillips writes an essay on his creating images for Joyce's "Ulysses." He writes "Joyce of course knew and revered Dante as Dante knew and revered Virgil, and Virgil Homer...my life and my work and my enthusiasms made some sort of unified field whose preoccupations, initially isolated, found by gravity a mutual attraction. This of course is what happens in the evoked worlds of Dante's Florence, Cicero's Rome and Joyce's Dublin where are met the people who make sense of life, and through their grand imperfections make life rich."The 18 illustrations by Phillips relate to the 18 chapters of "Ulysses .Each one is bordered and relates to the size adn shpe of th eiPad that phillips s=usses as aformof his work."The pages of new images by Tom Phillips and references on the facing page by excerpts by Joyce,...

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This book deals with Phillips' response to the political situation which developed after Rushdie wrote "The Satanic Verses" and the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran offered one million dollars for his assassination because he believed that the book was offensive to Islam. Phillips uses Humument imagery to respond to this false accusation. An image of Rushdie captioned "Jack Hughes" with a painting of Dreyfus in the background signifies the French statement by Emile Zola, "J'Accuse." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The bookbinding and clamshell case were made by Pella Erskine-Tulloch. The poem on the front cover reads, writing - my thoughts interlacing fold consciousness, and on the back cover the poem reads Words - words! Make me blossum -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.