Archive of the Limited Edition of Dante's Inferno: Canto XV/4 / Phillips, Tom., 1983
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Scope and Contents
XV/4 In a welter of fire Ser Brunetto races away across the plain. The figure is from a watercolour that I made from one of Muybridge's indispensable photo sequences from The Human Figure in Motion (cf. Canto V/3). Dante's teacher is here seen as if heading for the cloth of green mentioned at the end of the Canto as the prize in a foot-race (in which indeed the runners are naked). The green echoes the shape once again of the lawn of a Folly for Wisdom (cf. Canto IV/1) to show the immortality as poet and savant to which Ser Brunetto seems to aspire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1983
Creator
- Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022 (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (28 prints (silkscreen, lithograph) in clamshell box (museum board, paper covered, lithograph)) ; prints 42 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 6
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: Tom Phillps: (stage:28). Nationality of creator: British. General: Added by: BARB; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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