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This exhibition of ancient books that had been altered by their readers, insects, weather, etc. was curated by Leonard Hansen and Richard Minsky. The exhibition was partially funded by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition consisted of books, manuscripts and works on paper from the collection of Grolier Club members. "The Heart of A Humument" from the Sackner Archive was exhibited and illustrated in the catalogue. George Koppelman exhibited Charles Bukowski's "The Genius of the Crowd," Cleveland:7 Flowers Press, 1966 (hand printed and illustrated by da levy). He purchased it for less than $1.00 from Jim Lowell, Asphodel Book Shop at the time of publication. The colophon called for 103 copies but about 40 copies survived since the rest were destroyed by the Cleveland police. Current price (2007) on the internet from Virtuous Books is $14,500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book was published to accompany the exhibition at the Bodleian Library from June through October 2007. "Celebrated in Italy as the 'Tre Corone' (the 'Three Crowns'), Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio have exerted an immense influence over Western culture...Dante especially, as author of the Divine Comedy, was conspicuous in all aspects of life, from the university classroom to the pulpit, and from the workshops of book-producers to the street...During the last two hundred years there has been an extraordinary revival of British interest in Dante...Even today, Dante's presence in our culture is far-reaching. The contemporary artist, Tom Phillips, reflects on how his own visual work fits into this centuries-old tradition of Dante illustration and scholarship, bringing us up to modern times." Phillips' essay is titled "Hershey Heaven and Dante's Hell." In it, Phillips traces the story of his work through trial and tragedy to publish his book. The essay is illustrated with several...

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Nazerenko contibutes a lengthy introductory essay on the history of concrete and visual poetry with emphasis on Ukrainian poets entitled "Calligraphic Scratches, Squiggles and Shaped Texts: The Evolution of Ukrainian Visual Literature." A great deal of research for this book was carried out in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This beautifully produced catalogue was published for the exhibition in the Olin Library at Washington University by the curator, scholar and Head of Special Collections, Kevin Ray. It coincided with the exhibition and symposium "The Dual Muse: The Artist as Writer and the Writer as Artist" organized by the Gallery of Art and the International Writers Center. The Sackner Archive lent nine handwritten and typed bound volumes of Phillips' Dante manuscripts, two silkscreen prints, eleven collages from the "Dante Diary," and a typewriter work on backing paper incorporating all the words of Phillips' first translation of the Inferno. Kevin Ray contributed an illuminating essay tracing the history of translations and illustrations of Dante, including the works of Botticelli, Gustave Dore, Blake and Rauschenberg. Ray writes that in the Tom Phillips' Inferno, the artist, incorporates "much of the method he developed in creating A Humument, 'treating' an existing text and making of it...