A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

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Academic paper, Transforming Text: Finding the Poem Within Deborah F. Carrington & Chapman Hood Frazier pub. JAEPL, Vol. 16, Winter 2010 p14

Where are they now? The Class of Forty-Seven pub. Talfourd Press, London and Richard Minsky, New York. Bound collectors edition of thirty collage images by Tom Phillips, interpreted in poems by Heather McHugh and then further modified by Phillips using Humument treatments. The book is the subject of an exhibition at Minsky's studio in New York Limited edition prints A Humument p.12 We Are The People and A Humument p.132: Mr Glad are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition A Humument Vol 1, Vol 2 & Supplement published in loose leaf form by Ian Tyson's Tetrad Press. Available on subscription in boxes. A Humument became a touchstone of Phillips's oeuvre. The Royal Academy’s 2015 Summer Exhibition dedicated a full room to it. Quotations from A Humument populate his other paintings, works of art criticism, and some of the songs he wrote when returning to music in the 1990s. Irma, a central character and the muse of A Humument, gave her name to an opera – conceived in 1969, recorded in 1977 and 1988, with its full score published in 2015. A new production directed by Netia Jones premièred at the South London Gallery in September 2017. Humument p4 Nine Eleven and A Humument p7 Scribe the Story screen prints in editions of 100 exhibited at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

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Academic paper I Find / I Found Myself / and / Nothing / More than That: Textuality, Visuality, and the Production of Subjectivity in Tom Phillips' A Humument" by James L. Maynard, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Vol. 36, No. 1, Thinking Post-Identity (Spring), pp. 82-98, pub. Midwest Modern Language Association How to draw characters, just do what he does on 103, 110, 166, 273, 324, 344, 346, 347, or at 355, 361. It’s amazing, beautiful, and simple. Eye Magazine Issue 18 Autumn 1995, Humument feature, "Tom Phillips’s treated novel is a key text in the short history of deconstruction and experimental print" One of the first Humument fragment prints, Just for Hus is published as a fundraiser to benefit HUS, his assistant Brian Eno's commune A Humument p10 Give Me Tomorrow and A Humument p154 Our Excellent Exodus in limited editions are exhibited Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Both old and new works from A Humument are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. A silkscreen print from 1970 One Woman In The Dusk, and an oil collage painting Irma: Scenes from an Opera, completed 2013 The exhibition Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book, co-curated by Rowan Watson and Elena Foster, is on display at the V&A South Kensington from 15 April — 29 June It was while he was at Bonneville primary school that, as he said, he first “learned the word artist, and discovered that it was someone who did not have to put his paints away”. Armed with this revelation, Phillips soon moved on to other forms of art-making. At the local grammar school, he took up the bassoon and violin and sang as a baritone in the choir. In 1957, aged 19, he added the piano to his repertoire, and signed on as one of the original members of the Philharmonia Chorus. Book Works touring exhibition continues to Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex, New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, and other venues

TP: The cover picture serves to identify one edition from another. The most recent echoes the first and says that I am still forging on. The cover as it appears on the iPhone/iPad app is the best, taking advantage of a changing image. I sometimes imagine the whole book like that were there but world enough and time. A Humument features in an exhibition of works from the Centre for Book Arts at New York Public Library TP: The art world now is behaving as a branch of the fashion business, and I am pleased always to have it now almost received as a primarily literary work by people with a fitter attention span than the those who flit from novelty to novelty like the puppet collectors of the art world’s ever falser reality.

Six of Hearts is released on Largo Records. The songs, written for and performed by Mary Weigold are based on Humument texts. This recording by The Composers Ensemble, conducted by John Woolrich In an age of uncertainty that does not cease to proclaim the death of the avant-garde and in which “suspicious readings” have become the norm, the refiguration (and disfiguration) of found texts has become an important part of experimental literary and artistic production since the 1960s (which, incidentally, is when the failure of the “historical”, self-critical avant-garde reached its apex, at least according to Peter Bürger’s controversial thesis, see Bürger 1984). In the course of Phillips's teaching career, at Ipswich, Bath and Wolverhampton art schools, he introduced Brian Eno, his best student, to the ideas that helped Eno develop ambient and generative music.A Humument is referenced in Imaged Words and Worded Images, edited and with an introduction by Richard Kostelanetz (pub. Outerbridge & Dienstfrey) Phillips has worked on this novel? poem? art piece? for 50 years. In 2017, the final version of the work will be published. It has been used as the basis of an opera (in 1969), a digital app, exhibitions, and several published versions. The book seems inexhaustible in its possibilities both for other art/poetry works and reading pleasure. Academic paper The Transformation of Narrative and the Materiality of Hypertext by N. Katherine Hayles Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jan.2001), pp. 21-39 Pub. Ohio State University Press Phillips gives a reading from A Humument at his local independent bookshop 'Review' in Bellenden Road