A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

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The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist the Artist as Writer Symposium Washington University Gallery of Art Limited edition prints A Humument p6: The Man as Photograph and A Humument p.363 Twilight of the Planet (produced for The Guardian climate change auction), are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition A Book of the Book, some works and projections about the book and writing, ed Steven Clay & Jerome Rothenberg pub. Granary Books New Humument fragment collage works are realised as limited edition prints. Loving You, Marriage Happens Together in the Train exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Academic paper, Transforming Text: Finding the Poem Within Deborah F. Carrington & Chapman Hood Frazier pub. JAEPL, Vol. 16, Winter 2010 p14

Tom Phillips: Works from A Humument an exhibition at Flowers Gallery New York City, includes new series of Humument collage works. The exhibition is reviewed by Faye Hirsch Art in America No 9/Oct, Works from A Humument' appears in Art in Review, New York Times (June 2005), Roberta Smith A Course in Sussex II is produced twenty-five years after the first version, this time marking the golden jubilee of the University of Sussex A Humument p.91 Be Nice to an Artist in June screenprint in an edition of 75 exhibited Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 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.Limited edition prints A Humument p41: Piccadilly Girl and A Humument p71: Bourgeois Pictures are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

A Humument features in Ginger Snaps: a collection of cut-ups / machine prose / word & image trips, Kontexts Publications Unbound Narrative opens at the Cameron Art Museum in North Carolina in August. This exhibition features A Humument in the context of nine contemporary artists who utilise the book as medium and inspiration.An exhibition of Humument prints at Searcy's Club at the top of the landmark Gherkin skyscraper, 30 St Mary Axe, London

Academic paper That/which/he/hid/reveal I: uncovering the infinite in Tom Phillips's A Humument, Kristina Jipson pub Textual Practice Volume 27, Issue 2 Humument fragments are incorporated into illustrations for an elegant new edition of Cicero: Orations pub. The Folio Society A Humument p10 Give Me Tomorrow and A Humument p154 Our Excellent Exodus in limited editions are exhibited Royal Academy Summer ExhibitionAt Leiston Middle School in Suffolk students create an altered novel in the style of A Humument in response to a lecture by Tom Phillips

Phillips focused on EnglishatOxford, but alsotook drawing classes and lessons on Renaissance iconography, and he later studied under the artist Frank Auerbach at the Camberwell School of Art.Perhaps thankstothat diverse arrayof study, A Humument is hard to fit into any existing categories of works, whether artistic or literary. Ithas both the sui generis obsessiveness of folk art, the intensely sophisticated craftmanship of medieval illuminated manuscripts, and a solid dose of 20th-centuryavant-gardism. “It didn’t have a genre at all,” Phillips said. “So I called it a treated novel.” Two series of gouache paintings The Quest for Irma and Ma Vlast incorporate fragments from A Humument I took a forgotten novel found by chance. I mined, and undermined its text to make it yield alternative stories, erotic incidents and surreal catastrophes, which lurked within its wall of words. I replaced with visual images the text I’d stripped away. 'A Humument' began to tell, amongst other memories, dreams and reflections, the sad story of Bill Toge, one of love’s casualties.’ 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 2013A Humument p193 By Way of Vienna and A Humument p130 Ornament, silkscreen and epson limited edition prints are published and exhibited at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 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 American premiere of Irma, produced by NCSU Centre Stage at Stewart Theatre of the University of North Carolina in Raleigh with Tom Phillips playing the part of The Narrator. Certain Trees: The Constructed Book, Poem and Object, a special display curated by Elizabeth James of the National Art Library at V&A South Kensington Phillips received the Frances Williams Memorial Prize in 1983 for his illustration and new translation of Dante's Inferno. He also made a TV version of the Inferno with Peter Greenaway which won them jointly as directors the Italia prize.