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Article gives an overview of Tom Phillips' work during his residency/festival in Raleigh, 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reproduction of page 85 of Mallock's "A Human Document." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article provides the background for Phillips' "A Humument" and is illustrated with two pages and two fragments from his altered Victorian novel by W.H. Mallock's "A Human Document." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was held at the time of Tom Phillips' Slade lectures in Oxford. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This collage depicts a newspaper clipping of two photographs of Tom Phillips in France with Peter Greeneway and other attendees at an art and cinema festival. The left side of the collage depicts a drawing of a cubist head on green paper that Phillips made during one of the dinner events.The page is dated XVI.III.LXXXV. Synopsis of the 35 drawings/collages in this suite:he drawings are numbered, viz., in 4 (April, 1985), Phillips mentions having dinner with Marvin Sackner and the Ackermans in London when Marvin inspects the archive copy of Dante's Inferno. In 19, he notes sending original MS books to the Sackners. In 23 (April, 1986), Phillips recalls lunch with Marvin in NYC; in 24 he describes his exhibition at the Center for Book Arts and meeting with the Sackners. In 31 (March, 1987) he mentions meeting the Sackners in Miami and comments on Laffoley's Dante's Divine Comedy paintings (held by the Sackner Archive) through the article that appeared in Sulfur magazine. This work...

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This page depicts three word drawings in the top center and the large painted word APNAL with the P collaged over with torn handwritten papers. Canto V is framed at the bottom center and "the lustful" is written in graphite five times on the right hand side. On XXVII.XII.LXXXIV Phillips writes "Proof reading the T & H Dante with Hansjorg". The remainder of the handwritten text in green ink describes his work on a TV Dante. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page is titled "Dante in Strasbourg" and in the upper tight hand corner there is a photogrphay of Phillips standing beneath a plaque at the house of Gustave Dore. This page contains newsprint collaged papers with photographs and text describing Phillips visit to Quimper and presentation with Peter Greenaway at the film festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Titled Dante in Winggield, Phillips writes that Astrid Furnival " has knitted me a new Dante sweater from the olive oil label etc." An actual label is collaged on the right side of this page next to a tag for Dante yarn. The newsprint is an advertisement of Dante's Inferno which is described "in the Sunday Times as stupendous, breathtakingly sumptous...epic...impressive limited de-lux edition took seven years to make." The handwritten dairy continues the tale of progress with a TV Dante. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page is titled " I have measured out my life in coffee spoons." It contains cards, menus, bills with Phillips writing who was with him at each location. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The word Lustful is painted on the center black background with the German word Libestod up side down on the top portion and Lust on the side of the page. The top center contains the lines " Oh Ovid Byron Mills & Boon - Bring me another. Make it soon" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Titled "Dante in Rotterdam" the upper left corner contains a map of Holland. At the bottom center is a photograph of Phillips wearing his Dante sweater knitted by Astrid Furnival at Angela Flowers Gallery celebrating the publication of Dante's Inferno by Thames and Hudson. In the center section there is an ink sketch for the Quimerexhibition catalogues. The top right contains an invitation to Phillips' lecture "Dante: From Folio to Video" at the Byam Shaw school of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Titled "Dante in Cambridge" this page contains a map that Phillips has annotated with his particular visits including book shops, Trinity Hall and King's College Chapel.The newsprint piece is of a medieval bound copy of The Divine Comedy which reminds Phillips of Richard Minsky's projected version. Phillips writes that Brian Eno is keen to do the music for a TV Dante . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page is titled "to celebrate the USA publication of Inferno." It consists of eight panels of Dante in his study each version slightly bigger than the preceding one.Tthe last image also contains a very small collaged replica of the full image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title of this page is "Make It New" and the theme seems to be the Islamic extremism and Irish political problems.Along with newspaper articles about these topics, protest pictures of Khomeini and a Jewish star of David, Phillips writes that he is back from Tibet and China. His text continues to follow the proceedings of making a TV Dante. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dante Among the Moderns is the title of this page. Much of the collaged material is from Sydney, Australia and from a dance production of "Hell." The upper right corner has a small photograph of Phillips. His diary notes continue to refer to his work with Peter Greenaway and others on the ideas for a TV Dante. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title of this page is "Dante is Ireland." The newsprint articles from the Cork Examiner depicts the pilgrims at the shrine to the Virgin in Ballinspittle and the shrine. An obituary for the Dante scholar, Fr Kenelm Foster is included and a small map of Ireland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title of this page is "Dante in Italy - From Pisa to Florence to Gaville to Pesaro to Pistola to Peckham." The collaged elements include cards from various restaurants including Il Sasso di Dante. A photograph in the center of the page is of an Italian town and at the bottom a collaged photograph shows Tom Phillips walking in the Della Sala Market. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dante in Tibet & China is the title of this page.The water colored drawings relate to the Asian surroundings. The right side depicts three falling, nude figures and two additional swirling paintings are on the page. Phillips' diary notes describe his trip. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The left side of this page is a collaged page from a magazine titled Dante over which are pasted a scrap reading "big screen/small screen, a distorted head, and a handwritten post card addressed to Tom.The right bottom of the page is a newspaper photograph of Terry Waite, captured in Lebanon, being led off by a strange drawn figure of Phillips' imagination. Below are two clippings that read " ...and hell followed with him - Clint Eastwood." Phillips handwritten text continues with his meetings with Peter Greenaway.At the bottom left Phillips writes "Meanwhile in New York Richard Minsky continues with his epic Dante binding." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page is titled "Dante in Rouen & Chicago." The upper right of the page is a newspaper photo of Tom Phillips holding a copy of Dante's Inferno and dignitaries at the Musee des Beaux-Arts. The upper left corner of the page is a mailing slip of the Inferno to Leo Phillips, his son.At the bottom center is an announcement of a TV Dante to be shown at The National Video Festival Reprise at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The work is described as follows: "A video montage of archive and original film combined with paint-box generated graphic images, the program achieves a narrative of contemporary relevance that is at once exploratory of both the original text and current video techniques." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.