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This forty-eighth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Under the Good Augustus." The left side of the page contains torn pieces from an English newspaper.The top one reads,"Dante would feel at home in the 1980s." The lower section contains a head of Dante with other prominent heads.Six small drawings by Phillips are on the vertical center of the page .A calendar for June 1988 is on the right side of the page and contains the following comments:" at the office of Bob Peck reading through Cantos I - VIII. Exciting to hear a completely new voice." On Monday June 20th, "Some very good footage as we watch the first lot." On the 23rd," Lunch at the Garrick Club with Sir John Gielgud (who said the verse was beautiful)!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This forty-nineth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Marching Song for Circle 4." The left side of the page contains Phillip's monthly plan for August including a note "TP's debut as camerman" on August 14 and 15. The right and the lower sides of the page contain collaged elements of Phillips' circular designs "Why Save Why Spend." He has also composed several verses of poetry related to loss of money and how "time squanders us down in hell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fiftieth new series collage page of the Dante Diary consists of seven lines of layered texts, letters and signs separated by yellow and rose colored horizontal lines. There is an orange painted cross from corner to corner.The texts cannot be read. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-second new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante at the Palace." On the left side of the page is Phillips' monthly plan for September 88. On Thursday the 8th he writes that he "made set of moving images of a dog from Muybridge for hound VELTRO. Had to do this since the actual greyhound footage that we had was copyright and they wanted 500 pounds for it. We then asked someone to make a film especially but it turned out to look like a home movie....." The remainder of the page consists of scraps of Italian texts, a map of London and large black ink handwriting.The revised title of the film is Dante: The Inferno - KGP Productions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-third new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Words Words Words." The entire page is covered varying colored letters of works painted six times over the collaged surface of the page. The center section contains the typed text of Canto VII Drill Song.The other collaged pieces contain printed and handwritten texts from the Inferno. Collaged in the lower right corner is a handwritten placecard for Sir J.Gielgud, who was participating in the filming of the Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-fourth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "So Back and Forth and Up and Down They Go." The right side of the page contains Phillips' monthly plan for October 1988 as work continues on the filming.The right side of the page is collaged with taxi, courier, bus and airline tickets. The center of the page contains a print of a nude man walking down the steps from a study by Muybridge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-fifth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Goes Dutch." Phillips collaged ephemera from his stay in Rotterdam and includes an annoucement from the Stedelijk Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-sixth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Return of Paolo (& Francesco)." Phillips continues to work on the Inferno film and adds collaged annoucements featuring Dante from a restaurant in Florence, a collaged drawing from Pisa and small found pictures of Dante and Beatrice. His monthly plan for November is collaged on the right side of the page. At the end of the month he writes, "Working on tidying up many loose ends & joining the seven cantos together." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-seventh new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Returns to Pinewood & Bill Saint." Pinewood is a film editing suite. The left side of this page is Phillips' monthly plan for July 1988. The right side is collaged with an advertisement for The Palace, a video post production house. Phillips' days are filled with recording and editing for the Inferno film production. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-eighth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Sees the Light." The right hand side of this page contains Phillips' monthly plan for December 88 in which he writes that he is at Channel 4 for showing of Cantos I to VII. Also back to Palace for "still tidying up and putting cantos numbers on (in Roman numerals!! Small battle won) Peter's Bee Gun provides mist for Canto VIII. work abandoned until 1989.........." This page also contains a partial letter handwritten in Italian from Centro Dantesco in Ravenna Italy, a picture of Muybridge's stepping man and part of an article from the New York Times "Computer Is Helping Scholars Dissect Dante at Dartmouth." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-ninth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips." Phillips' notes describe the calligraphy as "first layout for (illegible) titles which in the end were replaced by more conventional versions & with the order of the (illegible) names reversed at the request of Peter. How many (illegible) have been spent on unused material or wasted down blind alleys of plan & project?" The name of Bill Saint is at the bottom of the page. Other names are obliterated . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sixtieth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Curtains for Dante...." A center letter is surrounded on both sides by torn illustrated stage curtains. The author of the letter is Michael Kustow, Commissioning Editor, Arts for Channel Four Television .It is addressed to Kaes Kasander of KGP Productions and states that there will be no more funding for the Dante project. He writes, "I know that all of you will be extremely disappointed - as I am - but I'm afraid that there is nothing I can do to change this decision. The first eight cantos, like a partially completed statue by Michaelangelo, will stand as a great landmark." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This sixty-first page of the new series of A TV Dante is titiled "Doomed TV Show's World Premier." This page contains annoucements from the ICA and the Tate Gallery Calendar of Events in May 1989 of a "special screening of the first 7 in a proposed series of 33 Cantos. Exploring all the possibilities of current tv/video technology they offer a rich and complex visual evocation and commentary on the poet's journey into The Inferno. Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips hope to be present at these screenings." Phillips writes after the showing at the Tate, "Cantos I -VII plus Canto VIII without M&E track. approx 70 people inc. Peter Blake and John Furnival. I take questions afterwards." Phillips writes about the ICA showing, "Cantos I-VII. Two showings each to full house. I answer questions afterwards." After a screening in the Netherlands Phillips writes, "Cantos I-VII poorly screened - cut off at bottom. I answer questions. Many of the actors from Rotterdam shoot inc Lucy Fortune...

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This sixty-third page is one of two numbered 63 by Phillips. The text painted in pale orange on the top side reads "We are the peo..." Below it in black stencilled letters the text reads "Michael Kustow Productions." The background consists of rows of splayed, optical figures seemingly dancing across the page over a purple abstract background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sixty-third page is one of two numbered 63 by Phillips.This second page 63 contains four collaged images of a nude man descending the stairs by Muybridge.They are by Phillips in dark gray around the borders. This page is titled "Homage to Eadweard Muyb..." on the top edge of the page and "The Second Coming" on the bottom edge. Phillips writes on the right side "Xeroxed and enlarged from Peter's copy of Muybridge and prepared and doctored by me as a sequence to load directly on to a dump-tape via the rostrum box at Patase Video." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sixty-fourth page is similar to the numbered page 63 by Phillips.This page 64 contains variations of the four collaged images of a nude man descending the stairs by Muybridge.They are painted by Phillips in dark gray around the borders. The first figure on the left does not have yellow painted additions and the nude man is walking down three steps not four. This page is titled "Homage to E. M" on the top edge of the page and "Nude Descending a S" on the bottom edge.There is no calligraphic text by Phillips on the right side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This sixty-fifth page is titled "Trying to Rekindle Dante." There are many collaged and stenciled elements on this page and handwritten texts by Phillips. The collage on the left hand side advertises "The Dante Heater." Beneath it Phillips has written "Graphic element snipped by John XXIV/XII/LXXXVIII." Scattered on the page are torn pieces of prints from Phillips' Dante.On the right side is a card from a restaurant in Honfleur, France. On it Phillips has written the following: "Yet another sculptural event in Bretagne under the aegis of Yves Bonce.This time an ' animation' instead of a 'manifestation' in the library of Le Havre....Such is France. Took it in with Sylvia on the way back from delivering globes in Paris but was somewhat cheated in that the promised "Livre des Journees TP' was not in fact ready. Nice lunch at Honfleur." The painted stenciled text at the bottom of the page reads "The Kiss of lIfe =The Kiss of Death." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

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This sixty-sixth page contains the letter sent to Tom Phillips from Kees Kasander from Dante B.V. in Amsterdam informing hiim that the company wil no longer have Phillips serve as Co-Director of the Dante TV project as a result of Peter Greeenaway not being available for two years. Two new Directors will be selected and new financial arrangements were necessary.On the right side of the page, Tom Phillips describes the impassioned phone calls to reorganize and his final realization that the TV Dante will not be continued. A collage of a howling monster is collaged in the upper left hand corner.The upper right side contains the question painted in brown stencilled letters " Chi m'ha negate le dolente case?" The bottom right contains the phrases "KGP becomes Dante BV" in green paint and "the plot of the ersatz Dante" in gray paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This sixty-seventh page contains a typed letter by Phillips to Kees Kasander of Dante B.V. in Amsterdam in response to Kasander's letter of January 26, 1990 informing him of discontinuing the TV Dante project. That letter was collaged onto page 66. Phillips begins his letter "Dear Kees, Your charmless letter astounds me. The principle reason for continuing with a TV Dante must be that it has some real quality...I am not in the least interested in plots and intrigues and power politics and personality struggles. Since a TV Dante is in essence my project I just want to get on with the work that was so well started and could be further enriched with the ideas of other creative minds and talents." On the right hand side of the page, Phillips writes of meetings and letters and telephone calls to try to get the project back on track. He also mentions that TV Dante may be shown on Channel 4. The right hand side of the page also contains references to cricket with a painted green...

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This sixty-eighth page contains a sentence painted in orange stencilled letters on the bottom right of the page "Dante climbs back." Illustrating this is a collage of three illustrations of Muybridge's nude man climbing a staircase. Each staircase contains an increasing number of figures.The left side of the page contains a collaged paper with the name Plato. On the right side Phillips writes the Division of Cantos: " XXX - XXXIV Peter" and Cantos IX to XXIX are listed with notes for himself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.