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A Humument: A treated Victorian novel is an altered book by British artist Tom Phillips, published in its first edition in 1970 and completed in 2016.
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A Humument has been a work in progress since 1966 when artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version.
Jul 29, 2019 · A Humument is a collection of 367 pieces of artwork created by Tom Phillips from a Victorian novel called A Human Document. Phillips has reworked, painted, and collaged over the original text for decades, creating a unique and haunting masterpiece.
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Oct 1, 1980 · A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel. Tom Phillips. 4.35. 956 ratings91 reviews. In the mid-1960s, inspired by William Burroughs's "cut-up" writing technique, Tom Phillips bought an obscure Victorian novel for three penceW. H. Mallock's 1892 novel, A Human Document .
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A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel. Tom Phillips. Thames & Hudson, 2012 - Art - 367 pages. In the mid-1960s, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. Mallock's A Human...
A Humument, first published in 1970, is at once a spoof on the class-conscious and anti-Semitic romance recounted by Mallock, in his stilted prose, and an inventive and often hilarious exhibition of what an imaginative writer can do with what has come to be called found text.
Features. TOM PHILLIPS: A HUMUMENT, 1987. By William H. Gass. Some pre-Socratic philosophers conceived the cosmos as contained in a ring of fire, so that there were no stars like bright stones sparkling in the sky; rather, night’s dark sphere was colandered with holes through which the outer fire showed, and our spangled sky was illusory.
