Skip to main content

Critical text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

Books as Art / Phillips T ; Johns J ; Marinetti FT ; Telingater S ; Soffici A ; Lissitzky E ; Iliazd ; Ernst M ; Mallarme S ; Patchen K ; Hirschman J ; Ely T ; Caruso L ; Charriere G ; Furnival J ; Jackman S ; Kolar J ; Lewty S ; Lemaitre M ; Macia C., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-23449-23893
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1992

Dante's Inferno / Phillips, Tom., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-04116-4195
Scope and Contents

Phillips' introduction gives the reasons for undertaking his translation and publication of the Dante"Inferno." The Sackner Archive holds the following works shown in this exhibition: 1) A Dante Diary, 2) one of two Archive copies containing the stage and color proof prints of Dante's Inferno, 3) the 15 Notebooks dealing with the translation and illustrations of the Inferno, 4) the limited edition Inferno, and 5) proofs which survived the fire at Editions Alecto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000 / Jordanova, Ludmilla ; Phillips T., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43111-45166
Scope and Contents

The nature of the relationship between art, science, medicine and technology the aim of this exhibition, which is illustrated by a selection of portraits of personalities over 300 years eg. Jenner, Curie, Darwin and Einstein. Tom Phillips is representing by a painting of Professor Peter Goddard and preparatory work for the portrait of Professor Susan Greenfield. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Documentaries on the Arts / Phillips T., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-16334-16684
Scope and Contents

Book cover is illustrated by Tom Phillips. Review of Phillips' film at White Ink Studios is illustrated with "Benches" and two pages from "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Electric Portrait / Nuding, Gertrude Prescott; Phillips T., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35056-36782
Scope and Contents

Gertrude Nuding composed this text describing Tom Phillips' creation of the DVD portrait of the Director of the RI, Susan Greenfield. The Sackners were invited by Phillips to participate in the vernissage of the electronic portrait and the preliminary drawings at the Royal Institution in November, 2000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

How to Make a Humument / Schwenger, Peter; Phillips T., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-02811-2854
Scope and Contents

This is the manuscript of a talk on Tom Phillips' "A Humument" delivered by Schwenger before The Modern Language Association in a session that dealt with "Peritext" - all that surrounds a text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Humument Images to Accompany James Joyce's Ulusses / Phillips, Tom ; Moxham B., 2014

 Item
Identifier: CC-58971-10002162
Scope and Contents Bernard Moxham has contributed an essay on the historical background of James Joyce's creation of "Ulysses" and several other critical interpretations of this masterful book. Tom PHillips writes an essay on his creating images for Joyce's "Ulysses." He writes "Joyce of course knew and revered Dante as Dante knew and revered Virgil, and Virgil Homer...my life and my work and my enthusiasms made some sort of unified field whose preoccupations, initially isolated, found by gravity a mutual attraction. This of course is what happens in the evoked worlds of Dante's Florence, Cicero's Rome and Joyce's Dublin where are met the people who make sense of life, and through their grand imperfections make life rich."The 18 illustrations by Phillips relate to the 18 chapters of "Ulysses .Each one is bordered and relates to the size adn shpe of th eiPad that phillips s=usses as aformof his work."The pages of new images by Tom Phillips and references on the facing page by excerpts by Joyce,...
Dates: 2014

Journees / Phillips, Tom ; Moeglin-Delcroix A ; Bosseur JY., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-03830-3903
Scope and Contents

The total number of copies in the trade edition is not provided. The critical text relates mainly to analysis of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Last Ripeness of the Renaissance / Phillips, Tom., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-04473-4558
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips reviews "Leonardo da Vinci: The Artist and the Man" by Serge Bramly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Life Drained of Colour / Feaver, William; Phillips T; Cage J; Johns J; Cunningham M., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10720-10929
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips' "The Portrait Works" at the Portrait Gallery, London is unfavorably reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Master Portraitist: Frans Hals / Phillips, Tom., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-04271-4350
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips pays homage to Frans Hals in a review of Hals' retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Music in Art: A Schubert Evening in a Vienna Town House / Phillips, Tom., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-36172-37954
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Julius Schmid and Gustav Klimpt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Music in Art: Apollo and Marsyas / Phillips, Tom., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-36447-38241
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Michelangelo Anselmi and Titian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Music in Art: Broadway Boogie-Woogie / Phillips, Tom., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-36179-37962
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Piet Mondrian and Johannes Itten. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Music in Art: Cellist Practising / Phillips, Tom., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-36177-37960
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Patrick Symons and Augustus John. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Music in Art: David and Saul / Phillips, Tom., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-36176-37958
Scope and Contents

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the painting is by Rembrandt van Rijn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994