$29.12
- Paperback
392 pages
- Release Date
29 December 2022
Summary
The final edition of the late Tom Phillips’s ‘defining masterpiece of postmodernism’.
In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips discovered A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock, and set himself the task of altering every page, by painting, collage or cut-up techniques, to create an entirely new version. Some of Mallock’s original text remains intact and through the illustrated pages the character of Bill Toge, Phillips’s anti-hero, and his…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500292891 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500292892 |
| Author: | Tom Phillips |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 29 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 588g |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 126mm x 174mm |
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Critics Review
‘Simply astounding … and addictive’ - Stephen Fry
‘One of the most original, fascinating and lovely books of all time’ - Brian Eno
‘The closest thing a book has come to being an art object’ - The New York Times
‘Sly, humorous, erotic and endlessly fascinating’ - Edward Lucie-Smith, Sunday Times
‘A teeming world of humour, sex, sadness and art’ - London Review of Books
‘Turns a forgotten work into a thing of rare beauty’ - Bernard Levin, Sunday Times
‘Intricate, philosophical, romantic … and often funny’ - Michael Kustow, Guardian
‘One of the freshest and most original pieces of art literary work you are likely to see’ - The Spectator
Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips CBE RA (1937-2022) was a painter, writer, translator and composer. Collaborators included 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 appeared in many guises beyond book and exhibition form, including operatically in Irma, digitally as an app and aurally, read by the artist himself. Phillips held a 12-year-long position as chairman of the exhibitions committee at the Royal Academy in London, and also served as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum. He was appointed CBE in 2002.
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