{"id":7712,"date":"2009-10-21T08:09:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:48:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:48:53","slug":"featured-a-humument-by-tom-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-a-humument-by-tom-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: A HUMUMENT by TOM PHILLIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Tom Phillips is an English artist, born in London where he continues to work as a painter and collagist.<\/span> In 1966 he started \u00a0his most famous work \u00a0<em>A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel<\/em>.\u00a0The year of 1966 was important for Phillips. He exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for the first time, started work on A Humument, and began collaborating with Brian Eno. \u00a0Phillips randomly purchased a novel called <em>A Human Document <\/em>by Victorian author William Hurrell Mallock, and began a long project of creating art from its pages. He painted, collaged &amp; drew over the pages, leaving some of the text peeking through in serpentine bubble shapes, creating a &#8220;<em>found<\/em>&#8221; text with its own story, different from the original. Characters from Mallock&#8217;s novel appear in the new story, but the protagonist is a new character named Bill Toge (whose surname can only appear on pages which originally contained words like together or altogether). Toge&#8217;s story is a meditation on unrequited love and the struggle to create and appreciate art. The treated novel became known through literary and art magazines and quickly acquired a cult following.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> Hard bound with dust jacket. 376 pages with 368 color illustrations. A very nice copy of this scarce title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory <\/strong># 20976<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7742\" title=\"humument1_big1\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/humument1_big1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"humument1_big1\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/humument1_big1-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/humument1_big1.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Phillips, Tom<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Thames and Hudson<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date<\/strong>: 1980<br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> Hard Bound<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition<\/strong>: Near Fine<br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition<\/strong>: Near Fine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Phillips is an English artist, born in London where he continues to work as a painter and collagist. In 1966 he started \u00a0his most famous work \u00a0A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel.\u00a0The year of 1966 was important for Phillips. He exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for the first time, started work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15158,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions\/15158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}