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This page refers to the power of people. The poem reads, "we men and women who are life - we are the people - the good the evil the incomplete - the good and evil, the necessary." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image of this print appears to be fragments of a British flag. The poem reads, "searching for the complete extreme picture - he had lately done enumerated horse flesh; and water billiards - English Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The purchase and appraisal prices are listed in the record for the entire "A Humument" book. The poem reads, "ten hours; - bands play. It is a political revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem reads, "the gallery of a hundred years of a thousand - is in every street - art in the street - covered with pictures vivified." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem reads " A most magnificent kind of woners catalogue - DOCUMDNT the universe; and vanish - doumenti--libri----multa--admirandi! - at his bedside - all the reading of the thing with the stamp of art. tp ms and rs." Here Phillips is prising the Sackners' catalogue of their collection of concrete and visual poetry(1986) for which he also designed the cover. The same poem with a different image as a print with only 'tp' for Hansjorg Mayer publications catalogue is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A portrait of a woman is set in a circle and is framed in the colored stripes similar to those that Phillips painted in earlier works. The text reads, "home, ridiculous, - thought ridiculous - here was a woman - a vision beyond the pale of shy ideas - sonry blic adula derstan ked." The last bubble on the page consists of nonsense words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first poem reads: " undecayed on a hundred tapes strange enchanted musical strings echoing with what was gone, - the last performance and the shadow in the can." The second one reads:" undecayed the long - strange echanted silience, musical strings vibrating - shell of a note - first performance under the trees." There is a an unsigned duplicate of this print that has been matted individually. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem reads: " undecayed on a hundred tapes strange enchanted musical strings echoing with what was gone, - the last performance and the shadow in the can." There is a signed duplicate of this print that is matted with another version of the print entitled "undecayed the long." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This unpublished page has been burnt with streaked marks and ragged edges. There are no lines of text selected by Phillips on this page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image depicts a lattice of 'X's' that disappear into a void in the central area of the page. The poem reads, "art - art so much - Unknown contained in presuming to think about it - even without frank - though I used to work my poor little book - very rich for eyes - I always felt - that one day - I could draw a little well-worn fact." Flowers Gallery NYC 2006 priced Humument fragments (part of a page) that are about 70% the size of Humument pages at $5,000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this page, Phillips mines and draws two addtional Humument protagonists as the text reads "to resume narrative lite - in the diary of a child - who should appear but Mr. glad - and - Mrs. hope." These two silhouetted bodies seem to be dancing in a beautiful landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this page Phillips re-introduces the heroine of A Humument, Irma, in a setting reminiscent of the metal entrance gates that Phillips designed for the park in his neighborhood of Peckham. The text reads "on the street iron railings twist into twilight - Lamps are gilding round corners - to meet somebody - 'Somebody - Yes! Irma, - her love - her light her mood of mind - her movement and her voice. - changed my condition tinged all my dreams." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts ornamental colored markings surounding a black and white photographic portrait of a child in the center. The poem reads "face to face with this moment - a sudden child - Irma already - art by way of Vienna - to Vienna where the orient would reach art - came like a cloud - let me accept its reflections." According to a communication from Phillips, this artist proof is the only print of the edition to have added gold leaf additions; the other prints in the edition have gold ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The poem reads, "I knew the feelings, the sentiment of my genuine self - love is all - libera me - is the pain you preach love! - be bound toge by all the liks of love, - I separa me kind minister - libera me so I shall make my service." The image of this page depicts a stylized Crucifix with a label in gold leaf entitled "Sterne." This refers to Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 "“ March 18, 1768), an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption. Two volumes of Sterne's Sermons, which were conventional in both style and substance, were published during his lifetime; more copies of his Sermons were sold in his lifetime than copies of Tristram Shandy, and for a while he was better known in some...

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This page refers to love, possibly religious love. The image is a stave. The name at the bottom reads "Sterne." The poem reads, "I knew the feelings, the sentiment, of my genuine self - love is all - libera me - be bound toge by all the links of love - is the pain you preach love? - ! separa me kind minister - libera me so I shall make my service." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The purchase and appraisal prices are listed in the record for the entire "A Humument" book. The poem reads, "There will be difficulties everywhere. - ALL Aesthetics Civil War Millbank " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This drawing relates to Marvin Sackner's seventieth birthday. The background appears to be a wall of a mosaic with tiny colored square elements in a whorling pattern. In its middle, the whorls form the number "70." The poem reads "M S - quaint merald art - bassy art, - sip and scan the names and the quaint arch of the tab - and the card from quaint artist near them - memory, turning seventy - with a muse of quaint treated news." In this poem, M S stands for Marvin Sackner. "quaint merald art" signifies either unusual in a pleasing way, messenger (merald = herald) of art or wise (archaic meaning of quaint) messenger of art. "bassy art" indicates low pitched art, i.e., not in the main stream. "sip and scan the names and the quaint arch of the tab" refers to perusing the catalogue of the Sackner Archive. "and the card from quaint artist near them" signifies the correspondence from Tom Phillips, the composer of the poem. "memory, turning seventy - with a muse of quaint treated news" is...

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The poem reads, "Her man - free and tender days of Poetry - pay day of happiness; and love - Tickets ready - for Liverpool and expectancy - the glimmering shores of yesterday receding." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing relates to Marvin Sackner's invention of the LifeShirt recording device that monitored breathing. The background for the text in large letters is NIMS, Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, the company of which Sackner was the founder and former chairman of the Board of Directors. The poem reads, "join - written breath - to written heart - to the nerves talking - in a shirt - to record all physical maladies - and yet no pains of the soul." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.