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A Humument Fourth Revision Page 336 / Phillips, Tom., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-47465-68462

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Scope and Contents

This page contains a lush and complicated image. It may relate to a scene in an opera as suggested in the text. The top part contains a jungle setting with suggestions of snakes, a monkey and birds. The botton section has a figure of a person in a black robe and hat, a man in profile, a blond woman with glasses and a hobo.The text reads, " you had better explain the turning truth. - explain the opera - for He had suffered an opera all about chance - never again another painful wonder." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1996

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 drawing (gouache, ink, handwriting) in mat (museum board)) ; 18 x 12 cm, in mat 31 x 24 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

alcove Phillips Humument box 4th B

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: London, England : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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