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Archive of the Limited Edition of Dante's Inferno: Canto XVI/2 / Phillips, Tom., 1983

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Identifier: CC-54827-990257

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Scope and Contents

XVI/2 This bloated distortion of the Florentine lily with newly distended shapes and brashness of colour corresponds to Dante's vilification of his city as a place now swollen with excess. The original Golden Section version of the emblem (cf. Canto 11/2) was used to generate progressively more grotesque variants of the shape on the graphics computer of Leicester Polytechnic under the direction of Stroud Cornock. These parallel Dante's changing vision of his city, its nature, fate and history. The slightly obscured interior text reads 'fine florentine airs glowing with gaudy brilliance'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (11 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 7

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. Nationality of creator: British. 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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