A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

ôOne of the most winning and witty artistic experiments of recent time." ûWashington Post In 1966, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. MallockÆs A Human Document, and began working over the extant text to create something new.The artist writes, ôI plundered, mined, and undermined its text to make it yield the ghosts of other possible stories, scenes, poems, erotic incidents, and surrealist catastrophes which seemed to lurk within its wall of words. As I worked on it, I replaced the text IÆd stripped away with visual images of all kinds. It began to tell and depict, among other memories, dreams, and reflections, the sad story of Bill Toge, one of loveÆs casualties." After its first publication in book form in 1980, A Humument rapidly became a cult classic. This sixth and final edition, published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Tom PhillipsÆ first experiments with A Human Document, presents for the first time an entirely revised and complete version of A Humument, and will bring to a close half a centuryÆs artistic endeavor.

• | Author: Tom Phillips
• | Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 392 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Collections
• | ISBN-10: 050051903X
• | ISBN-13: 9780500519035