A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

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Book Works touring exhibition continues to Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex, New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, and other venues Illuminated Tweets, an exhibition exploring the development of A Humument through new media at the Saison Poetry Library as part of the Southbank Centre's Web We Want Festival Two series of gouache paintings The Quest for Irma and Ma Vlast incorporate fragments from A Humument Dante in His Study by Tom Phillips. In the late 1970s, he began work on a new translation of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated with his own prints A treated text by Tom Phillips is used on the cover of Heather McHugh's essay collection Broken English: Poetry and Partiality

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" Phillips's first one-man exhibition in London was in 1965 and he won a John Moores prize four years later. However, in the late 1960s he was possibly better known for his music activities (both classical and with Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra) including his own compositions, as performed by the pianist John Tilbury. In 1989, he became only the second artist to have a retrospective of his portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. Fifteen years later, at the same gallery, he curated an exhibition of his large collection of postcard photographic portraits from the early part of the last century, under the title We Are The People. This passion for collecting, classifying and curating also found expression in his book The Postcard Century, which portrays the history of each year from 1900-1999 through a collage of these vernacular images. The postcard collection also yielded the publication of a series of six themed selections, each curated by Phillips. P.95 A Humument Entering A Europe, a limited edition silkscreen print is published for academic conferenceTom Phillips starts a concordance of A Human Document completed over several years with the assistance of Andrew Gizauskas Tom Phillips becomes Josep Lluis Sert Visiting Professor at the Carpenter Centre Harvard, and while there he completes Merely Connect: A Questschrift for Salman Rushdie which includes new Humument treatments (pub. Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard University/Talfourd Press)

Cover artwork for the album Tom Phillips Words & Music features fragments from A Humument. (edition hansjorg mayer) while in the publication, Tom Phillips Works Texts to 1974 (edition hansjorg mayer) Phillips writes extensively about A Humument and other Humument related projects, such as plans for the ballet The Quest for Grenvill. The Art of the Book: From Medieval Manuscript to Graphic Novel, a publication about the National Art Library and its collections by James Bettley (pub. V&A Publications, ) Première of the opera Irma staged by the Ceolfrith Arts Centre at the University of Newcastle and later a second performance at York University, directed by Richard Orton 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 This 50th anniversary edition presents, for the first time, an entirely new and complete version of 'A Humument'. It also brings this half-century-long endeavour to a close.For those unfamiliar with the works of Phillips, a first viewing of a large body of his work in which disparate styles and themes appear side by side might bring about a sense of cacophony or awe. But if the effort is taken to delve into Phillips's oeuvre, then each of these styles and themes can be demonstrated to have a long-standing lineage in time. One does not need to become an art detective to enjoy Phillips's work; rather, his individual works can be visually and intellectually enjoyed if the viewer does not attempt to place the whole in the context of a single art movement. Herein lies the foundation for a partial description of "Humumentism": artistic creativity carried out in parallel styles and themes outside the popular conception of serial artistic presentations. Phillips’s own career, meanwhile, had branched out into yet other forms of art-making. In the late 70s, he had begun work on a new translation of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated with his own prints: this was published in 1983. Six years later came A TV Dante, which he co-directed with the avant-garde film maker Peter Greenaway. Treatment and Transformation: Tom Phillips's A Humument. Thesis by Elizabeth Elsas. Pub. Harvard University Six of Hearts: Songs for Mary Wiegold performed by Mary Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble, conducted by John Woolrich, recorded at St Silas Church, London in December