Thames Hudson | ISBN:0500289999 | File Type: PDF, 367 pages | File size: 28.Mb | May. 29th, 2012
General Artists: A Treated Victorian Novel In the mid 1960s Tom hillips 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 ct ic This new fifth edition follows its predecessors by incorporating hillip s latest revisions and reworkings and celebrates an artistic enterprise that is forty five years old and still actively a work in progress
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