Description: The Heart of a Humument / Tom Phillips Red gilt-stamped cloth in patterned pictorial dust jacket. One of many versions of Tom Phillips' decades-long project, A HUMUMENT, for which he has painted over pages of a Victorian novel by W.H. Mallock. This version focuses on the "heart" of that text, or a rectangle at center of the page. 11 cm x 8 cm Unpaginated 1985 Illustrated throughout in color In very good condition ——————— From Tom Phillips’s site: “A Humument has been a work in progress since 1966 when 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. The book he found was an 1892 Victorian obscurity A Human Document by W.H. Mallock and Phillips transformed it into A Humument. The first version was printed by the Tetrad press in 1973, and Phillips has continued to transform it, revise it and develop it ever since.”
Price: 27.99 USD
Location: Tucson, Arizona
End Time: 2024-11-26T00:00:53.000Z
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Author: Tom Phillips
Topic: Art History & Criticism
Subject: Art & Photography
