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The prints were made from the collages Phillips created using scraps from comic books and texts from A Humument. The lines read, "together is the train two people suddenly change - she self-wounded he, conscious of some cold yesterday." The image reflects a view from a train window of a bucolic landscape with two clouds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints were made from the collages Phillips created using scraps from comic books and texts from A Humument. The lines read, "every detail lingeringly - remembered - remembered people - remembered intrigue - and her her. Memory after memory." The image is abstract, but appears to depict a cubist form of a woman's body surrounded by images of a candlestick, books and a car among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text reads "203 - in Israel. - He memory.Her echo - he her image dreaming, and her his kaleidoscope." The image show a desert landscape in the distance with fragmented trees and buildings in the foreground. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text reads "you; - loving you was the first right thing - a mystery - written on the night." The image depicts a reclining, mysterious, flesh colored anthropomorphic form on a dark background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints were made from the collages Phillips created using scraps from comic books and texts from A Humument. The lines read, "redeem the dream; and dream the reason - awaken to the mended story." The image is divided in half with the left side depicting broken chairs and a chaotic appearance. The right side reflects a more tranquil domestic scene with pots and lamps. Presumably, this represents Phillips change from bachelorhood to marriage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints were made from the collages Phillips created using scraps from comic books and texts from A Humument. The lines read, "redeem the dream; and dream the reason - awaken to the mended story." The print depicts a dream-like moon on the top portion and seemingly fragmented bodies on the lower half. tthe image is abstract, the relationship between the image and the text is unclear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The purchase and appraisal prices are listed in the record for the entire "A Humument" book. The poem reads, "ten hours; - bands play. It is a political revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first poem reads: " undecayed on a hundred tapes strange enchanted musical strings echoing with what was gone, - the last performance and the shadow in the can." The second one reads:" undecayed the long - strange echanted silience, musical strings vibrating - shell of a note - first performance under the trees." There is a an unsigned duplicate of this print that has been matted individually. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The purchase and appraisal prices are listed in the record for the entire "A Humument" book. The poem reads, "There will be difficulties everywhere. - ALL Aesthetics Civil War Millbank " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads "made - gone." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips rediscovered these preliminary pages to A Humument that had been misplaced for 25 years and gifted them to the Sackner Archive. Recto-verso pages 29 and 30 are collaged with text from the other found pages of a Humument and are collaged vetically onto the pages. In page 30 there are 29 lines cancelled or partially so in scribbles. Page 19 reads:"said the lover, as he produced his own--a gorgeous product of Vienna--and offered it distended to the Englishman. - one of lover always one of - the great Fanny." Page 20 reads: "leather, produced a photograph of a lady with bare shoulders," - searching his bag for the type of the female picture of a completely Englishman's extreme -" A part of page 29 reads: The Englishman wondered opposite to you. Then, lifting but the next moment discovered towards his wife, he put his hand on her a lover had found air of devotion, and said to gamble in." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips rediscovered these preliminary pages after they had been misplaced for 25 years and gifted them to the Sackner Archive. Mounted such that only page 36 is visible. Page 36 reads "The sound. - lamp disturbance - talking trating - hidden niece - time lamp." The verso of page 35 is an incomplete drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips rediscovered these preliminary pages after they had been misplaced for 25 years and gifted them to the Sackner Archive. Mounted on mat such that only page 46 is visible. Page 36 reads "to my seeming paradox. I have done with love--true; but - love does, like an unresonable woman in a railway-carriage, - itself : nor does it ask that others should be crushed together, - to push them out the windows. Such as affection I cannot only understand, but I long to give and receive it. - Pencil the book - ink them in - The verses in question were as follows - doubts chill it much; a touch can can kill it, at a touch." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This monoprint reads, "Art already - corpse art - precipice art - raw art - tile art - all thia art - string art - lamp art - spring art - tree art - filled art - grass art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This monoprint reads, "Art already - corpse art - precipice art - raw art - tile art - all thia art - string art - lamp art - spring art - tree art - filled art - grass art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

One of the prints depicts most of the lines obliterated with brown paint and the other one with white paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The six prints are mounted individually on the mat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Six A Humument images of page 85 are printed on a single sheet. One copy is held by the Tate Museum in London. The print on the upper left corner begins: "three times the worm-eaten note - excepting for one missing string that three band playing an air suggestive of dissipation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover design for the CD is a poetry fragment from page 11 of "A Humument" that reads, church of familiar bones/ church of the neon lives/ skull sleep and feater/ tellthe pale face knows your name. The remainder of the text is xancelled with abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover design for the CD is a poetry fragment from page 11 of "A Humument" that reads, church of familiar bones/ church of the neon lives/ skull sleep and feater/ tellthe pale face knows your name. The remainder of the text is xancelled with abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.