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A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tom PhillipsPublish date:2017-01-10Pages:392
Language:EnglishPublisher:Thames & HudsonISBN-13:9780500519035ISBN-10:050051903XUPC:9780500519035Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:European, Individual ArtistsSize:6.90 x 5.20 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCEQ4MPJ2Q

A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Thames & HudsonISBN-13:9780500519035ISBN-10:050051903XUPC:9780500519035Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:European, Individual ArtistsSize:6.90 x 5.20 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCEQ4MPJ2Q
Phillips, Tom: - The English painter, writer, and composer Tom Phillips curated the groundbreaking exhibition "Africa: The Art of the Continent" at the Royal Academy in 1992. He is himself a collector of African art, specializing in the arts of Ghana and the Ivory Coast. His other books include The Postcard Century.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson

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6th Edition

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Tom Phillips

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