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Identifier: CC-46990-49728
Scope and Contents
Signs Ltd. of Bellenden Road have, after some adjustments I made to the prototype, produced, in laminated plastic with perspex slide, a handsome multiple of my favourite device. This comment about the work originates from Phillips' Works/Texts to 1974 (1974), p. 266. "A shop that I pass regularly on the way to the studio had a small red and white plastic sign saying C LOOPSEEND. Since the shop sold yams and sweet potatoes I assumed that this was the name of the proprietor; the double vowels suggested Dutch however and I was puzzled each time I passed it. Having seen this name for about a year and having thought it odd but probably liable to rational explanation, I suddenly came across its double in a second-hand shop in Ipswich in 1965. I was about to ask the shopkeeper whether he was any relative of his namesake in Camberwell when I noticed, in the back of the shop, many piles of similar nameplates, each bearing the inscription C LOOPSEEND. For some reason I made no enquiry in the...
Dates:
2007
Item
Identifier: CC-46990-49728
Scope and Contents
Signs Ltd. of Bellenden Road have, after some adjustments I made to the prototype, produced, in laminated plastic with perspex slide, a handsome multiple of my favourite device. This comment about the work originates from Phillips' Works/Texts to 1974 (1974), p. 266. "A shop that I pass regularly on the way to the studio had a small red and white plastic sign saying C LOOPSEEND. Since the shop sold yams and sweet potatoes I assumed that this was the name of the proprietor; the double vowels suggested Dutch however and I was puzzled each time I passed it. Having seen this name for about a year and having thought it odd but probably liable to rational explanation, I suddenly came across its double in a second-hand shop in Ipswich in 1965. I was about to ask the shopkeeper whether he was any relative of his namesake in Camberwell when I noticed, in the back of the shop, many piles of similar nameplates, each bearing the inscription C LOOPSEEND. For some reason I made no enquiry in the...
Dates:
2007
Item
Identifier: CC-46293-49015
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Identifier: CC-60252-10003255
Item
Identifier: CC-54482-52540
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Identifier: CC-04802-4893
Scope and Contents
This painting is reproduced on page 18 of the book "Art and Text" (2009), a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1977
Item
Identifier: CC-45920-48622
Scope and Contents
Phillips showed Wittgenstein's Dilemma in this exhibition dealing mostly with student work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2006
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Identifier: CC-46254-48975
Scope and Contents
This is a beatufully attractive concrete poetic/language art print as a classic Phillikps stecilled work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1986
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Identifier: CC-46251-48972
Scope and Contents
The theme of this print deals with inequities of artworks sold after the death of the artist who was not appreciated while living. This example is the auction of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers" for $47 million in 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1987
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Identifier: CC-46249-48970
Scope and Contents
This print depicts a portrait of a banker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1995
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Identifier: CC-51551-72649
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Identifier: CC-46294-49016
