Visual art
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
A TV Dante 2nd Series No.4 / Phillips, Tom; Furnival A; Ackerman M; Ackerman D; Sackner MA., 1985
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.
A TV Dante 2nd Series No.23 / Phillips, Tom; Phillips L; Minsky R; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Ackerman M; Ackerman D., 1986
Titled "Dante on Broadway II" this collage has fragmented newspaper clippings from the New York Times of Le Bernadine Restaurant where Phillips writes that he had lunch with Marvin and Ruth Sackner and Martin and Diane Ackerman. Also collaged is the obituary of Dante scholar John Ciardi, a torn portion of the announcement of Phillip's talk at the Center for Book Arts and an announcement of a concert in Boston with Leo Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A TV Dante 2nd Series No.24 / Phillips, Tom; Phillips L; Minsky R; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Ackerman D; Ackerman M., 1986
Titled "Dante on Broadway" this collage contains handwritten and collaged additions describing Phillips' opening exhibition at the Center for Book Arts. Collaged elements include a match book cover from the Noho Star, the graphic design logo for Hero Boy, a picture on Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland holding a Broadway sign and the Hebraic calligraphy for 2nd Ave Deli. Phillips comments that there was a "very lively and successful opening on Broadway with lots of people close to me there, Leo and Ruth, the Sackners, the Ackermans and of course Richard [Minsky] who has made such a wonderful job of curating the exhibit ." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A TV Dante 2nd Series No.31 / Phillips, Tom; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Laffoley P., 1987
This collage follows Phillips from London to Jamaica to Miami Beach. A hand addressed label in the upper right corner from Ruth and Marvin Sackner to Tom Phillips has the following written message: "25th Nov 1986 arrives the Sackner catalogue herein after known as the whopper with a list of their holdings & nominally all the important Dante material." A record of Phillips' diary entries are written on the left side of the collage dating from November,1986 to March 1987. An invitation to an exhibition of Phillips' graphic works at the National Gallery of Jamaica is collaged at the top center. Phillips includes a portion from the Dante piece by Paul Laffoley hanging in the Sackner Archive. l -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
At the ICA, Selections from Four Very Differt Collections / Sozanski, Edward J.; Phillips T; Finlay IH; Seille G; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1993
Review of the ICA exhibition "Personal Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections" at the University of Pennsylvania in which the Sackner Archive participated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dante Diary: Number I / Phillips, Tom; Ackerman M; Sackner RK; Sackner MA., 1979
Dante Diary: Number II / Phillips, Tom; Sackner MA., 1979
This second page from Dante Diary, which is dated from March 27, 1979 to April 19, 1979, includes a direct reference to Marvin Sackner. Philllips mentions discussing with him regarding self publishing Dante's 'inferno.' There are several, diverse sketches depicted on this page including a portrait of Hilary Hugh-Jones near the center at the the lower border. Her husband Philip Hugh-Jones, a British pulmonary physician was a friend of Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dante Diary: Number III / Phillips, Tom; Sackner SE; Sackner RK; Sackner MA., 1979
This third page from Dante Diary, which is dated from May 10, 1979 to July 10, 1979, mentions Phillips' visit with the Sackners and receiving "good Miami postcards from Sara Sackner." The sketches on its right side depict installation plans for the British Council Show and a standing man wearing shorts viewed from the rear who appears to be in position for urinating against a wall. In addition, Phillips has sketched small drawings of Inferno pages (Una Selva) and a partially completed devil-like figure at the lower right corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dual Muse, The: Symposium Volume / Bartlett J ; Breytenbach B ; Phillips T ; Walcott D ; Cuoco L ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Drucker J ; Gass W ; Celan P., 1999
Personal Choice: Selections from 4 Penn Alumni Collections / Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Finlay IH ; Phillips T ; Seille G., 1993
The exhibition, curated by Patrick Murphy, consisted of works loaned by the Sackner Archive, Carlos & Rosa de la Cruz, Martin Margulies, and William & Phyliss Mack. The artists from the Sackner Archive consisted of Tom Phillips, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Genevieve Seille. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Prints / Phillips, Tom ; Rosenthal N ; Sackner MA., 2003
This is issue no.21 of New Moment, a magazine for art & advertisement. This special issue was published as the catalogue for an exhibition of Phillips' prints in Slovenia. Marvin Sackner's essay "Humumentism: the Works and Ideas of Tom Phillips" was included. Other essays trace the areas of Phillips prodigious creations in book art, video, music, photography, translations and portraiture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Tom Phillips, R.A. / Phillips, Tom ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1994
The Sackner Archive lent six works to this exhibition which was acknowledged in the pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.