A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel: Final Edition - Rilegato

Phillips, Tom

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ISBN 10: 050051903X ISBN 13: 9780500519035

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2016

Riassunto

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 worked on it, I replaced the text I’d stripped away with visual images of all kinds. It began to tell and depict, among other memories, dreams, and reflections, the sad story of Bill Toge, one of love’s casualties."After its first publication in book form in 1980, A Humument rapidly became a cult classic. This sixth and final edition, published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Tom Phillips’ first experiments with A Human Document, presents for the first time an entirely revised and complete version of A Humument, and will bring to a close half a century’s artistic endeavor.

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Recensione:

'Provokes questions about the balance of intentionality and chance in both art and life' -- The Times Literary Supplement
'Visually stunning' --Daily Telegraph top 50 books of the year

'Weird yet compelling... brilliant and readable'--The Week

'Visually stunning and verbally clever' --The Scotsman

'A multimedia masterpiece' --1843

'A book to dip in to and enjoy a wide range of techniques and media' --Mature Times

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 050051903X
• ISBN 13: 9780500519035
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 6
• Numero di pagine: 367