A Humument by Tom Phillips
In the mid-1960s, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. Mallock’s A Human Document, and began cutting and pasting the extant text to create something new. This new fifth edition of Tom Phillips’s perennially popular book follows its predecessors by incorporating revisions and re-workings – over half the pages in the 1980 edition are replaced by new versions – and celebrates an artistic enterprise that is over 45 years old and still actively a work in progress. ‘Utterly original, delightful and idiosyncratic’ – David Lodge ‘Sly, humorous, erotic and endlessly fascinating’ – Edward Lucie Smith, The Sunday Times ‘Turns a forgotten work into a thing of rare beauty’ – Bernard Levin, The Sunday Times ‘Intricate, philosophical, romantic … and often funny’ – Michael Kustow, The Guardian ‘One of the freshest and most original pieces of art literary work you are likely to see’ – Evan Anthony, The Spectator
'The closest thing a paperback book has come to being an art object' - New York Times
'A strange, beguiling work … a teeming world of humour, sex, sadness and art' - London Review of Books
'One of a kind … A Humument is by turns humorous, poetic, aphoristic, erotic and pleasurably bafflingIt is also a key text for anyone interested in tracing the relationship of deconstruction theory and experimental print' - Eye Magazine (review first published 1995)
'A strange, beguiling work … a teeming world of humour, sex, sadness and art' - London Review of Books
'One of a kind … A Humument is by turns humorous, poetic, aphoristic, erotic and pleasurably bafflingIt is also a key text for anyone interested in tracing the relationship of deconstruction theory and experimental print' - Eye Magazine (review first published 1995)
Tom Phillips CBE RA is a painter, writer, translator and composer. Collaborators include the filmmaker Peter Greenaway (A TV Dante), the novelist Salman Rushdie (Merely Connect) and the composer Tarik O’Regan (Heart of Darkness). Informing Phillips’s work for half a century, A Humument has appeared in many guises beyond book and exhibition form, including operatically in Irma, digitally as an app and aurally, read by the artist himself. Tom Phillips is also an ardent Africanist. His groundbreaking exhibition ‘Africa: The Art of a Continent’ at the Royal Academy in 1992 attracted huge crowds and enthusiastic reviews. He is himself a collector of African Art, specializing in the arts of Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500290439 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500290431 |
| Title | A Humument |
| Author | Tom Phillips |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-05-28 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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