A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel
Images/graphics: Tom Phillips
Categories: Bookwork / Altered Books, Image-graphic Books, Offset Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works
Reference no.:NL/Phi.T/12.00 Place/Shelf:4sthER
| Book title: | A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel |
| Published by: | Thames and Hudson |
| Year made: | 2012 |
| Place made: | UK |
| Original: | No (facsimile) |
| Dimensions: | 130 x 180 |
| Binder: | commercial binding |
| Physical description: | hard cover case binding |
| Medium: | altered pages, graphics |
| Further information: | |
| This is 5th Edition of this now classic work.
"In 1966 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. He found his threepenny novel in a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London. This was an 1892 Victorian obscurity titled A Human Document by W.H Mallock and he titled his altered book A Humument. The first version of all 367 treated pages was published in 1973 since when there have been four revised editions. A Humument is now one of the best known and loved of all 20th Century artist's books and is regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art. A Human Document. A Hum(an) (Doc)ument. A Humument." (from the website humuent.com) |
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| Images/graphics: | Tom Phillips () |
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