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Product Identifiers
PublisherThames & Hudson
ISBN-10050051903X
ISBN-139780500519035
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038295571
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleHumument : a Treated Victorian Novel
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicIndividual Artists / Artists' Books, Individual Artists / Monographs
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorTom Phillips
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight24.7 Oz
Item Length7.2 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-941803
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal709.2
Edition DescriptionNew Edition,Revised edition
SynopsisIn 1966 the artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page, by painting, collage or cut-up techniques, to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junk shop on Peckham Rye, south London. It was A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock. ' I took a forgotten novel found by chance. I mined, and undermined its text to make it yield alternative stories, erotic incidents and surreal catastrophes, which lurked within its wall of words. I replaced with visual images the text I'd stripped away. 'A Humument' began to tell, amongst other memories, dreams and reflections, the sad story of Bill Toge, one of love's casualties. ' First published in 1973, A Humument - as Phillips titled his altered book - quickly established itself as a cult classic. Since then, the artist has been working towards a complete revision of his original, adding new pages in successive editions. That process is now finished. This 50th anniversary edition presents, for the first time, an entirely new and complete version of A Humument . It also brings this half-century-long endeavour to a close., In 1966, 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 classic. This sixth and final edition, published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Tom Phillips' 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 century's artistic endeavor., In 1966, 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 classic. This sixth and final edition, published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Tom Phillips' first experiments with A Human Document , is the first entirely revised and complete version of A Humument , which brought to a close half a century's artistic endeavor.
LC Classification NumberN7433.4.P5A4 2016
