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Archive of the Limited Edition of Dante's Inferno: Canto III/1 / Phillips, Tom., 1983

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Identifier: CC-54533-989995

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Scope and Contents

Canto III/1 A portfolio of etchings that I worked on in 1979 appeared under the title 'I had not known death had undone so many', T. S. Eliot's beautiful translation of a line from this canto. The heads here are much in the same vein and similarly influenced by African Art (notably some rock drawings I studied in Namaqualand) and the appearance of diatoms under a microscope. They are similarly used in that certain of them are chosen to be hugely enlarged to make stylised masks of characters in the Inferno as with Homer in Canto IV, Aristotle in Cantos XI and XXX etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (8 prints (etching) in clamshell box (museum board, paper covered, lithograph)) ; prints 41 x 32 cm, in box 44 x 35 x 8 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

1904 shelf Phillips Dante Inferno Archive box 2

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 : Talfourd Press. Signed by: TP (l.r.stages:2,4,5,6). Nationality of creator: British. General: Proof copy of print, number 2. General: Added by: BARB; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

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

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