Humument Phillips Tom
Humument Phillips Tom In 1966, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. As I worked on it, I replaced the text I'd stripped away with visual images of all kinds. Mallock's A…
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Humument Phillips Tom
In 1966, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. As I worked on it, I replaced the text I'd stripped away with visual images of all kinds. 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.
This sixth and final edition, published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Tom Phillips' first experiments with A Human Document, presents for the first 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.