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A Humument : A Treated Victorian Novel, Paperback / softback Book

A Humument : A Treated Victorian Novel Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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 romantic plight emerges. First published in 1973, A Humument – as Phillips titled his altered book – quickly established itself as a cult classic.

From that point, the artist worked towards a complete revision of his original, adding new pages in successive editions.

That process is now finished. This final edition presents an entirely new and complete version of A Humument.

It includes a revised Introduction by the late artist, in which he reflects on the 50-year project, and 92 new illustrated pages.

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