A Humument A Treated Victorian Novel
A Humument A Treated Victorian Novel by Tom Phillips is a unique artistic work published by National Geographic Books on January 10, 2017. This sixth edition spans 392 pages and presents a revised and complete version of Phillips’ transformative project, which began in 1966 when he reimagined W. H. Mallock’s forgotten nineteenth-century novel, A Human Document. Through a process of alteration and visual enhancement, Phillips creates new narratives and imagery, exploring themes of love and memory.
Readers will discover a blend of literary collections, essays, and art as Phillips delves into the text to unearth hidden stories, surreal incidents, and reflections. This edition not only celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of his initial experiments but also encapsulates decades of artistic exploration. The work invites engagement with its layered meanings and visual elements, making it a significant contribution to European literary and artistic discourse.
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“One of the most winning and witty artistic experiments of recent time.” –Washington Post
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.
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