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Richter provides a personal history of Dada and divides the book into chapters based on locales, viz., Zurich, New York, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, and Paris. He also includes a chapter on Neo-Dada by which he means Pop Art. The appendix provides a chronology of Dada events and dates. This book is a translation of Dada - Kunst und Antikunst (1978 reprint is in Sackner Archive) and is a reprint of the 1966 edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Richter provides a personal history of Dada and divides the book into chapters based on locales, viz., Zurich, New York, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, and Paris. He also includes a chapter on Neo-Dada by which he means Pop Art. The appendix provides a chronology of Dada events and dates. This book is a reprint of the 1964 edition of Dada - Kunst und Antikunsnt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the catalogue for a major Dada exhibition that travelled from the Pompidou Center to the National Gallery in Washington to MoMA in New York. The exhibition presents many forms of Dada in the principle cities of Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York and Paris. The chief curator was Laurent Le Bon. The facsimile ticket "Etiquette de bagage" by Marcel Duchamp was made by Mike Bidlo. Includes several photographic portraits of the Dada artists/poets as well as complete reproductions of Dada periodicals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Deals with posters put up during the Festival of Dada and Surrealism supporting Finlay's cause when his work was cancelled by the French government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a very well illustrated catalogue of book covers of the art movements featured in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cameron writes that this work consists of "1 page letter in red & black type accompaning 20 pp dsh's carbon copy of his notes on Dante." The text of this manuscript is not linear. Houedard draws the idea of dance in the cantos of Purgatorio and Paradiso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition consisted of historic and experimental dance and music scores. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 36th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante & Domesday Looking for a Sign." It consists of four rows of seven painted black geometric symbols. Under each one Phillips has written the descriptive name, for example churches, market, park vineyard, royal land and sheep. This may be related to the symbols used by hobos in America.The paper used by Phillips for this page has erased graphite drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 37th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Forms a Company" and refers to KGP Productions - A TV Dante. This company title, Kassander Greenaway Phillps, is both collaged and painted onto the page. Phillips' handwritten notes on the right top of the page refer to the casting of a A TV Dante film made with Peter Greenaway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 38th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante at the RA." The main element on the page is Phillips' drawing for a book label.He writes, "Since I am the chairman of the RA library it falls to me to design the book label. Also Peter and I plan to use the cast collection, at present arranged on musty shelves, as a basis for Canto IV meeting with the heroes of past times.Time runs out and we have not yet made the shoot." On this page there are also found elements with fleur de lys designs, two on paper and one a photograph. Phillips writes, "Maurice, taking layers of wallpaper from above the sink downstairs reveals the original wall papers to have been a pattern of red fleur de lys. amazing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 39th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante in NY - BRU & Rouen". Phillips writes, "November. In New York delivering a copy to Richard Minsky for onward sale. Back via Brussels for lecturette & show of Dante pages. Toni Zwicker, who didn't want to buy the book when it was cheap has now bought two copies via Richard. News of the impending show in Miami where Dante will feature with some other things of mine, inc. globe etc. The curator wants to make a touring one-man show as well. " Phillips also writes that "Kees rings to say that at long last the money is gone through and we can make contracts: can anything be slower than this TV business? One loses so much of the original momentum." The collage elements on this page consist of a shadowy picture of what may be an open page of the Dante book, printed reviews and announcements of Phillips' presentations and an airline boarding pass. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 49th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Sings Again." Several reviews, collaged onto this page mention the PeterGreenaway/Tom Phillips' A TV Dante as a "significant...autonomous art production." A newspaper lists the showing of A TV Dante and describes it as follows: " Six hundred years ago the great Italian poet Dante wrote of his imaginary visit to the underworld and produced a vivid list of the vices and crimes of his age, which scarcely needs changing today. Film-maker Peter Greenaway and painter Tom Phillips have collaborated on a modern version of 'The Inferno', using the latest developments in computer graphics, film and video techniques. In this first episode (Canto 5 of 34) Dante, guided by Virgil, enters the second circle in the descending spiral of Hell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 41st new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Visits Crete Again." The center section contains a rubbing with the name Erich Hell Gefr 4.1 1918 + 215 1941, most likely from a grave stone.The found papers include entrance tickets to a museum, remnants of hotel receipts, partial photograph of a landscape with a cross and a ticket to the airline departure lounge. Phillips writes, "departure lounge as image of vestibule of Hell for Canto III." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 42nd new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante in Belfast." The page is collaged with a map of Belfast. The center section contains a drawing of a helicopter that casts a large shadow over the map of Belfast. An invitation from the Ulster Museum of a private viewing of "Two Portraits" is collaged in the upper right hand corner. One of the portraits is of Iris Murdoch by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This 43rd new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante in Miami Beach Again." On this page, Phillips visits with Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami.The center contains a black and white announcement picture of Ruth and Marvin standing in front of Phillips' "Artchive" painting.To the left is a color version of the painting from the Bass Museum exhibition invitation. Phillips writes,"The big Artchive painting looks very good though it needs a coat of varnish now. Excellently laid out show done by Michael Peobble whom I had a couple of meals with (and his wife). Very pleasant dinner after the show at Ruth's elegant women's club." At the top center of the page is a table seating card for Tom Phillips for a party he describes as follows, "Another Dantesque event: a party given by the Johnsons Baby Powder heiress on an island at a golf club stiff with diamonds with M & R & few other jews or welshmen. Terrible food and the hostess finally not present. I sat among...

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This forty-fourth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Down Under." It includes a map of Australia with Phillips' itinerary drawn in green ink. The trip, according to his 1988 planner started in Sydney on March 8th, continued to Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin. He departed Australia on April 7th. Phillips provides a description of events and people he met on notes written on the map. He also collaged onto the page cards from Aristotle's Restaurant ("If in Sydney don't eat here!"), the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Bank (with the name Toge, protagonist of A Humument), Adelaide Festival and a card from Francesca da Rimini ("She seems to be some kind of punk performance artist"). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This forty-fifth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Down UnderII - In the Penal Settlement" It includes a photogrpah of Phillips standing in a country road with a sign to his left stating Beatrice Hill. Collaged fragments of a print of the tower of purgatory, a singular mountain island and a diagram of the universe are included on the page. An introduction to Phillips' visit by Eileen Starke reads, " I am pleased to introduce this exhibition of one hundred and thirty eight illustrations to Dante's 'Inferno' by the artist Tom Phillips. These are being shown for the first time in Austalia. I was delighted that Tom took up my suggestion to bring his Dante to Australia especially as this indicates he is now convinced that Australia is ready for Dante. On this subject he wrote: 'Australia is a country that Dante knew nothing about and is situated roughly where he and his Ulysses thought Purgatory was: in the 'Inferno' Ullysses catches a glimpse of a great...

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This forty-sixth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Meets Harry in Hilversum." The left side contains two columns of names for casting Dante and Virgil for TV Dante. Most of the names are crossed out.The center of the page consists of rough sketches and the right side contains an April calendar of Phillips' schedule. About Hilversum Phillips writes, "Hulversum now a huge complex.I remember tuning in as a teenager to an exotic radio staion." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This forty-seventh new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "To Begin at the Beginning." The main portion of this page is covered with the dust jacket of a novel titled "The Dark Wood" by Frances Turk." Phrases relevant to Dante's Inferno are circled including Paradise for Two, Forgotten Paradise and the dark wood came between. Phillips notes that on May24 he will be 51 years old, and that May27th is the target day for 20 Sites. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.