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This is a review of the Tom Phillips "A Humument" exhibition at the Kamin Gallery, Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania. The Sackner Archive lent the works to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Gunther recounts a visit to the Sackner Archive in 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the second revised edition that includes the proceedings of a symposium in which the Sackners took part. Timothy Eaton curated this comprehensive exhibition of book art and in the preface acknowledges the Sackner Archive as "the premier contributors with the loan of fifty works..." All the authors contributing an essay to this catalog signed the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover illustration is from The Divine Comedy, a verse translation by Phillips published by Thames & Hudson in 1983. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Callow was born in Streatham, London, England, UK, the son of Yvonne Mary (nee Guise), a secretary, and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman. His father was of English and French descent and his mother was of Danish and German ancestry. He was brought up Roman Catholic.Callow attended the London Oratory School and then went on to study at Queen's University Belfast ('Queen's') in Northern Ireland before giving up his degree course to go into acting at the Drama Centre London. Callow's immersion in the theatre began after he wrote a fan letter to Sir Laurence Olivier, the Artistic Director of the National Theatre, and received a response suggesting he join their box office staff. It was while watching actors rehearse that he realised he wanted to act.Callow made his stage debut in 1973, appearing in The Thrie Estates at the Assembly Rooms Theatre, Edinburgh. In the early 1970s he joined the Gay Sweatshop theatre company and performed in Martin Sherman's critically acclaimed...

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The exhibition was curated by Daniel Traister who contributed a critical essay. Marvin Sackner wrote the preface, "Humumentism": The Works and Ideas of Tom Phillips. Sackner coined a word, "Humumentism" to signify the art form of Tom Phillips, one that intregrates humanistic activities through individual creative thought that falls outside the current popular conception of artistic presentations. The works to the exhibition were lent by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Daniel Traister who contributed a critical essay. Marvin Sackner wrote the preface, "Humumentism": The Works and Ideas of Tom Phillips. Sackner coined a word, "Humumentism" to signify the art form of Tom Phillips, one that intregrates humanistic activities through individual creative thought that falls outside the current popular conception of artistic presentations. This is a varient copy with a yellow rather than red border on the cover. The Sackner Archive lent Phillips' works to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Daniel Traister who contributed a critical essay. Marvin Sackner wrote the preface, "Humumentism": The Works and Ideas of Tom Phillips. Sackner coined a word, "Humumentism" to signify the art form of Tom Phillips, one that intregrates humanistic activities through individual creative thought that falls outside the current popular conception of artistic presentations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the books depicted in this catalogue that were shown as a traveling exhibition in New England were mass produced artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue features documents of the avant-garde. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of the Tom Phillips exhibition in the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania as borrowed from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This was the exhibition in which the Sackners first encountered the artworks of Tom Phillips. Unfortunately, this catalogue is not illustrated with images of his work - only descriptions in German that included 114 works from 1962-1975. All the pages of A Humument (1966-1973) were displayed between two panes of glass amounting to 367 drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue essay by John Pull examines Phillips exploration of Mallock's text and of his own London neighborhood in relationship to his translation and illustration of Dante's Inferno. Pull designed the cover by printing seven permutations of Tom Phillips' name, e.g., Slim Philpot, Tim Pillshop, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of Tom Phillips lecture and exhibition of A Humument at the Van Pelt Library. The Humument pages were lent by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of "The Postcard Century" by Tom Phillips. Kustow writes that "Phillips speculates on the characters and narratives of his vanished postcard-senders and the blurred bystanders in the pictures, while uncovering landscapes of wonder and networks of meaning in the ephemera of our age." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the "third" edition of the book that presents a retrospective of Phillips' ouevre. The "second" edition and its year of publication are a mystery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition of the book that presents a retrospective of Phillips' ouevre. In view of the importance of Tom Phillips in shaping the Sackner Archive, one copy is stored as a reference text, the other copy with Tom Phillips books in a box in the alcove off the second bedroom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the forward to the catalogue, Harriet Bart writes that this exhibition "presents the book and the printed page as palimpsest: de-constructed, re-examined, re-marked, re-considered, re-constructed, re-imagined, re-invented, re-purposed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.