Humument Fifth Edition A Treated Victorian Novel

Name: Humument Fifth Edition A Treated Victorian Novel
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ISBN: 9780500289990

ISBN-10: 0500289999

ISBN-13: 9780500289990

Edition: 5th 2012

Authors: Tom Phillips

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In the mid-1960s, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. Mallock’s A Human Document, and began working over the extant text to create something new. The artist writes, I 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 I’d 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 love’s casualties.After its first publication in book form in 1980, A Humument rapidly became a cult…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 5/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.10" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.562

Tom Phillips CBE, RA, is a major British artist who lives and works in London.