Humument Biography
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- Image 1 - Caption Strange Day Humument Fragment 1970
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- Image 2 - Caption Tetrad boxes
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- Image 3 - Caption Homage to Frith & Co 1971
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- Image 4 - Caption Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting cover
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- Image 5 - Caption National Theatre poster
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- Image 6 - Caption The Open and Closed Book poster
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- 1970
- Tom Phillips starts a concordance of A Human Document completed over several years with the assistance of Andrew Gizauskas
- Irma: The Score, first published in a small french avant-garde review (OU: ed. Henri Chopin).
- The London Magazine (Feb), Extract from A Humument with a commentary
- Pages Magazine, issue 1 Fall
- Tom Phillips contributes an illustrated essay describing A Humument and his processes.
- Pages Magazine issue 2 Winter an advertisement for A Humument Vol 1 published by Tetrad Press (priced at 30 pounds Sterling for the 10 prints), A Humument also appears in Issue 3
- Irma performed at the Bordeaux Festival as a concert work
- In One Side & Out the Other pub. Ferry Press includes 21 illustrations by Phillips using Humument procedures
- 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 is referenced in Imaged Words and Worded Images, edited and with an introduction by Richard Kostelanetz (pub. Outerbridge & Dienstfrey)
- 1971
- trailer, A precursor to A Humument comprising 75 original pages described by Phillips as 'garnered from the cutting floor of A Humument', is published by edition hansjorg mayer. Several other variants of A Humument are developed at this time, including Doc, a series of affidavits and testimonies which attempt to build up the picture of a lecherous doctor. These are abandoned, though examples remain in the Sackner Archive
- Special edition of Panache Magazine, Future's Fiction, edited by Richard Kostelanetz includes pages from A Humument
- Poetry Review (April)
- 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 poster is published by Tetrad Press
- Fragments of text from A Humument are incorporated as pendants into the paintings Homage to Frith & Co, Come & Go and the series Ma Vlast
- 1972
- A Humument Volume III (Tetrad Press) A Humument Volume IV (Tetrad Press) A Humument Volume V (Tetrad Press)
- Text fragments from A Humument appear in a series of watercolours, largely based on postcard sources, published by Tetrad Press as 12 prints: Ein Deutsches Requiem: After Brahms
- A Humument features in Ginger Snaps: a collection of cut-ups / machine prose / word & image trips, Kontexts Publications
- Tom Phillips designs cover artwork for the King Crimson album Starless and Bible Black featuring a fragment from A Humument
- 1973
- A Humument Volume VI (pub. Tetrad Press)
- Within a week of completion, the first version of A Humument is shown in its entirety at the ICA, Humument works are exhibited also at Galerie Ba Ma, Paris
- 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
- Pages 272, 135 and 138 from A Humument make a cameo appearance on the cover of the Robert Fripp and Brian Eno album No Pussyfooting.
- Two series of gouache paintings The Quest for Irma and Ma Vlast incorporate fragments from A Humument
- 1974
- A Humument Volume VII (pub. Tetrad 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.
- Tom Phillips contribution to the Scratch Music catalogue includes extracts from Irma and postcard images as the basis for a performance piece. Scratch Music edited by Cornelius Cardew, pub. MIT Press.
- 1975
- Imaginary Postcards, with Jonathan Williams (pub. Trigram Press), A Humument Volume VIII (Tetrad Press), Works/Texts to 1974 (pub. editions hansjorg mayer)
- A Humument exhibition tours from London's Serpentine Gallery to the Gemeente Museum in the Hague and ends up in Basel. There, at the Kunsthalle, it is seen by Ruth and Marvin Sackner who are, over the next ten years, to become the owners of the whole manuscript as well as keen supporters of the continuation of the project.
- Tom Phillips exhibition at Palais de L'Athénée, Geneva
- 1976
- Tom Phillips collaborates with John Furnival on Erik Satie an exhibition at Bath Academy of Art
- A Humument Volume X (Tetrad Press)
- 1977
- A Humument Variations (Coriander Press)
- Fragments from A Humument are incorporated into a commissioned poster designed by Tom Phillips to announce the opening of the National Theatre, London.
- 1978
- Tom Phillips first exhibition in America at Lefebre Gallery, is reviewed in Artnews volume 77/no.3, and illustrated with a page from A Humument. Artnews Volume 87/No.6 contains a review of A Humument
- A recording of Irma is released on Brian Eno's Obscure label.
- 1979
- A Humument is featured in The Open & Closed Book, an exhibition of Contemporary Book Arts at the National Art Library, V&A Museum, London. The cover of the accompanying catalogue is designed by Tom Phillips and features A Humument fragment.
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- Image 1 - Caption Paris Review cover
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- Image 2 - Caption Austin's Furniture Repository
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- Image 3 - Caption First Humument page completed
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- 1965
- After reading an interview with William Burroughs in Paris Review Tom Phillips starts to experiment with his own variant of 'cut up' technique, the columnedge poem
- 1966
- On a routine Saturday excursion with Ron Kitaj, Phillips purchases A Human Document at Austins Furniture Repository Peckham for threepence. The first Humument page (p.33) is made
- 1967
- A Humument is first mentioned in print, in ICA Bulletin magazine No.169 with illustration
- 1968
- In November No.3 of the Openings Press Card Series features Tom Phillips's Three Telegrams
- 1969
- Irma, the opera based on A Humument is completed (on the day man first walked on the moon) and the libretto published as a print
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- Image 1 - Caption First Trade Edition
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- Image 2 - Caption Dante image
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- Image 3 - Caption Heart of A Humument, Pella Erskine-Tulloch binding
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- Image 4 - Caption Irma CD cover
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- Image 5 - Caption Match print
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- 1980
- The first bound trade edition is published. Produced by Hansjörg Mayer in Stuttgart and distributed by Thames & Hudson, there are 15 new versions of pages since the Tetrad Press edition
- British Council exhibition 'Tom Phillips Graphics' tours for 8 years to France, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Jamaica finishing in Iraq in 1988
- Arts Review, Kevin Powers reviews the trade edition of A Humument with reproduction of page 190
- 1981
- Book Works: Sculptural Books by 20 Artists (catalogue pub. South Hill Park Arts Centre), exhibition featuring A Humument with binding by Pella Erskine-Tulloch begins at South Hill Park Bracknell and travels to Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Sunderland Arts Centre, Tyne and Wear, The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Regional Craft Centre, Lincoln
- 1982
- Book Works touring exhibition continues to Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex, New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, and other venues
- 1983
- Humument fragments appear in suite of illustrations to TP translation of Dante's Inferno where Mallock provided an excellent foil to the all-knowing Virgil
- Irma revival at ICA, London where it forms part of Adrian Jack's MusicICA series. It is presented as a double bill with itself, in two contrasting versions; one a spare chamber performance by Jean Yves Bosseur and the French group Intervalles (in which Phillips sings the part of the Narrator) and the other an augmented revival of the original 'lavish and erotic' York version, in which Elise Lorraine created the role of Irma
- Exhibition of works from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive, University of South Florida Library, Tampa, FL.
- 1984
- Craft International Oct/Dec Richard Minsky interviews Tom Phillips on The State of the Book Arts
- 1985
- Hansjörg Mayer publishes The Heart of A Humument, a miniature edition based on the central portion of the novel’s pages. Pella Erskine-Tulloch produces a number of bespoke bindings and The Heart of A Humument is later the subject of a bookbinding competition
- Exhibition Centre Georges Pompidou Livres d'Artistes
- 1986
- A Course in Sussex, a screenprint incorporating six pages from A Humument, is produced to mark the silver jubilee of University of Sussex
- A Humument features in an exhibition of works from the Centre for Book Arts at New York Public Library
- AMM, pioneering interpreters of open-score ensemble music, give a London performance of Irma at the Serpentine Gallery
- 1987
- A Humument is reprinted by Thames & Hudson in a second revised edition with 55 new pages. It is reviewed in Artnews Vol 87 No.6 and in the TLS by David Bindman
- Fiftieth birthday cricket match at the Oval is commemorated with Match Print
- 1988
- P.95 A Humument Entering A Europe, a limited edition silkscreen print is published for academic conference
- Twenty Years of British Art from the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL.
- The Altered Page, an exhibition at the Center for the Book Arts, New York
- Aspects of British Book Art today, Saturday's Book Arts Gallery, with catalogue. The exhibition features A Humument, and bindings of A Humument and Heart of A Humument by Pella Erskine Tulloch and Richard Minsky
- Steve Xerri interviews Tom Phillips in the July issue of Fiction Magazine
- The Australian National Gallery, Canberra acquires an archive of Tom Phillips graphic works including a large holding of Humument prints
- The first Humument Terrestrial Globe made with assistance of Sylvia Sumira, globe conservator
- 1989
- Irma by AMM & Tom Phillips is released on CD by Matchless Recordings listen here on UBU web http://www.ubu.com/sound/phillips.html
- Fragments of text from A Humument appear in a suite of prints O Chateaux oh Saisons, published by Wine Arts
- Humument celestial globe completed, Celestial and Terrestrial Humument Globes acquired by National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, a second set go to the Sackner Archive
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- Image 1 - Caption Six of Hearts 1992
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- Image 2 - Caption Merely Connect 1993
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- Image 3 - Caption Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive Painting
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- Image 4 - Caption Humument skull 1996
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- Image 5 - Caption A Humument Alphabet (letter "O") 1997
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- 1990
- 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
- The Atlantic, Volume 266 No.4 Oct. Pamela Petro's essay "Books as Works of Art" describes "A Humument" by Tom Phillips as "perhaps the most famous artist's book to date"
- Tom Phillips: Selections from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, an exhibition at North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
- 1992
- A Humument p.341 limited edition print produced to benefit the V&A Museum, London
- A Humument p.167 Sing Through The Hushed Ear limited edition print produced to benefit the RNID
- A Humument: Variants and Variations, The Talfourd Press publication of new and rare treatments from A Humument to mark the centenary of the publication of A Human Document by WH Mallock. The binding incorporates two Humument page fragments
- Treatment and Transformation: Tom Phillips's A Humument. Thesis by Elizabeth Elsas. Pub. Harvard University
- 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.
- Three British Book Artists at Mandeville Gallery, University of California
- Prints from A Humument exhibited at Marita Gilliam gallery Raleigh, North Carolina
- 1993
- Human Documents: Tom Phillips's Art of the Page, Kamin Gallery, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. PA
- A treated text by Tom Phillips is used on the cover of Heather McHugh's essay collection Broken English: Poetry and Partiality
- 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)
- At Leiston Middle School in Suffolk students create an altered novel in the style of A Humument in response to a lecture by Tom Phillips
- 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
- 1994
- Tom Phillips at Yale Center for British Art includes pages from A Humument lent by Ruth & Marvin Sackner
- Royal Academy of Arts, London produce A Humument t-shirt
- 1995
- Martin McClellan creates A Humument Homepage, in collaboration with Tom Phillips and Lucy Shortis. One of the first artist websites online
- CORTEXt: a survey of recent visual poetry Hermetic Gallery Milwaukee featuring A Humument with catalogue
- A Humument p.361 Doing Italy, A Humument p.349 We Start Tomorrow and A Humument p.117 A Number Were Gay limited edition screenprints are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- 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"
- 1996
- A Humument p.91 Be Nice to an Artist in June screenprint in an edition of 75 exhibited Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- Tom Phillips designs the dust jacket for poet Ciaran Carson's volume Opera Et Cetera, referencing Humument technique (pub. Wake Forest Press).
- A group of friends working in the computer industry make a treated version of Bill Gates's book The Road Ahead, posting it online as the Toad Head Project and crediting A Humument as an inspiration
- William Gass reviews A Humument in Art Forum vol 35 no.3
- A Humument skull
- 1997
- Second version of A Humument website created by John Nick Pull
- Aspects of Art: A Painter's Alphabet, featuring A Humument alphabet is published by Bellew in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery
- A Humument 3rd edition (second revised edition) is published by Thames & Hudson. This edition contains 98 new versions of pages
- A Humument p.97 On The Net and A Humument p.344 Shining Children screenprints in editions of 75 and 100 exhibited Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist the Artist as Writer Symposium Washington University Gallery of Art
- 1998
- A Humument p10 Give Me Tomorrow and A Humument p154 Our Excellent Exodus in limited editions are exhibited Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- Humument treatment applied to cover design for Dark Star (EMI records): two more covers follow in 1999
- 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
- 1999
- Composer Julian Anderson sets A Humument texts to music
- A portrait of the (postmodern) Artist: Intertextual Subjectivity in Tom Phillips's A Humument, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor pub. University of Michigan vol. 2, no. 1, Winter
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- Image 1 - Caption Humument Sudoku 2007
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- Image 2 - Caption Tom Phillips at the Institute for Advanced Study
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- Image 3 - Caption Turning 70 2007
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- Image 4 - Caption Redeem the Dream Humument collage fragment 2005
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- Image 5 - Caption Third Revised Edition 2004
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- Image 6 - Caption A Pause on the Landing collage 2005
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- 2000
- A Book of the Book, some works and projections about the book and writing, ed Steven Clay & Jerome Rothenberg pub. Granary Books
- Molly Schwartzburg contributes an essay, Tracing Traces: Variations on the Theme of the Palimpsest in Tom Phillips' A Humument, to the publication The Visual-Narrative Matrix, Southampton institute ed Graham Coulter-Smith
- A Humument Ulysses, A suite of four silkscreen limited edition prints selected from an ongoing series of illustrations to Ulysses
- 2001
- 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, )
- 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
- Academic paper Tom Phillips: Treating and Translating by Mary Ann Caws, pub. Mosaic (Winnipeg) , Vol. 34, No. 3 , September 2001
- 2003
- A 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
- An exhibition Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida features Humument works from the Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry
- 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
- 2004
- A Humument is published by Thames & Hudson (third revised edition, with Edition de Tete) includes 40 new page treatments
- Life, Death and that sort of thing, an exhibition of works by Tom Phillips at Shandy Hall, Coxwold
- Tom Phillips exhibition Harborne Gallery
- 2005
- 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 Humument features in two publications:Altered books chapter in Creating Artists' Books (A & C Black Publishers 2005, p.59) Sarah Bodman, and Additions and Subtractions chapter in No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 (Granary Books 2005, pp.128-30, 196, 252), Betty Bright
- New Humument works created while Phillips is resident at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, as Director's Visitor. He returns for several weeks each year until 2011
- 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
- 2006
- A further Humument collage work Memory After Memory published as a limited edition print for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- Tom Phillips becomes Slade Professor of the History of Art and delivers a series of 8 lectures at Oxford University. The final lecture The Sound in My Life' (8th March 2006) takes the form of a concert of Tom Phillips World Premières, this being music set to Phillips's texts by composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Michael Nyman, Julian Anderson, John Woolrich, Robert Saxton, Howard Skempton, Joby Talbot, Robin Holloway, Gerard McBurney and Tarik O’Regan. The concert, at the Holywell Music Rooms includes Like Running Away, Brian Eno's setting of a Humument page which he performs with the Composers Ensemble. This event is reprised later in the summer as a cushion concert at the Royal Academy.
- 2007
- To celebrate the 250th anniversary of William Blake’s birth, on 28th November over 60 artists and poets inspired by the spirit and work of William Blake are invited to submit a page to be published in a limited edition artists’ book, The William Blake Birthday Book. Phillips's contributes a page from A Humument
- A series of themed books of materials from Tom Phillips postcard archive is published by the Bodleian Library, each one bearing A Humument fragment on the cover
- A Humument Fragment collage work In Israel published as a limited edition print and exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- A Humument features in Tom Phillips's designs for Garsington Opera Programme
- To mark the occasion of Tom Phillips's 70th Birthday John Nick Pull presents him with a leather bound digital concordance of A Humument
- Large display of works from A Humument at the Keiller Library, National Gallery of Scotland. Opening night event, on 6th October at Hawthornden Theatre, Tom Phillips in conversation with Graham Rawle
- ICA London Artist's Book Fair, features A Humument exhibition and a live event Tom Phillips and Hansjörg Mayer in conversation in which the artist and his publisher discuss their long and productive history
- 2008
- A Humument p.233 Ticket to Ride screen print in edition of 100 is produced for Unknown Celebrities, a Tom Phillips exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead. The print is later exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
- Six new prints from Phillips's Humument series are created for the exhibition Elsinore Library at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, including p.196 St Erne. Interpretations of Mallock's Page 62 (A Human Document) by Year 12 and 13 students from four different local schools feature in a display alongside the exhibition.
- 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
- 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
- A Human Document by WH Mallock is reprinted by Kessinger Publishing
- 2009
- Humument p4 Nine Eleven and A Humument p7 Scribe the Story screen prints in editions of 100 exhibited at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- Less is More: The Politics of Erasure exhibition at Simon Fraser University Gallery, N. Vancouver, Canada. Reviewed Capilano Review No. 3.7 Winter. This issue uses Tom Phillips's A Humument as the prototype technique for erasure in poetry. Ariana Kelly and Bill Jeffries provide an introductory essay about Phillips and the works in the exhibition
- A Humument features in Tom Phillips's exhibition of work on literary themes Uncommon Reader at Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
- Limited edition prints A Humument p.7 Scribe The Story, and A Humument p.4 Nine Eleven are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
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- Image 1 - Caption Humument App for iPhone 2011
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- Image 2 - Caption Cicero : Orations 2011
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- Image 3 - Caption Perez Museum catalogue 2014
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- Image 4 - Caption Sport fragment (Bodleian)
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- 2010
- Academic paper, Transforming Text: Finding the Poem Within Deborah F. Carrington & Chapman Hood Frazier pub. JAEPL, Vol. 16, Winter 2010 p14
- 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 Humument is developed as an app for the iPad with special features, enhanced resolution, find wheel, oracle and brand new pages. The Humument App is favourably reviewed in The Independent, The Guardian, Eye Magazine, Design Observer, Literary Review among others and also widely blogged. The following year a new version for the iPhone is released
- 2011
- 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
- Humument fragments are incorporated into illustrations for an elegant new edition of Cicero: Orations pub. The Folio Society
- Tom Phillips joins Twitter @TomPhillipsArt where he tweets in iambic pentameter and reveals brand new A Humument pages as they are completed
- 2012
- A Humument fifth edition is published with 82 new page treatments, and enthusiastically reviewed: 'Double Act' by Adam Smyth, London Review of Books, vol 34 No.19 October 11th 2010, 'A Little White Opening Out of Thought' by Chris McCabe, Poetry Review volume 102:3 Autumn 2010,'A Humument' 5th edition reviewed by Keith Miller, TLS 28th Sept 2010, 'Were there but world enough and time' interview with Andrew David King, The Kenyon Review (online) Sept 2010,'Every Day of My Life is Like a Page' James Kidd Literary Review July 2010, 'A Humument: Long Revision' David Jennings, The Spectator 19th May 2010, 'Absent Things As If They Are Present' The Believer Magazine January 2010, Jeannie Vanasco
- Phillips gives a reading from A Humument at his local independent bookshop 'Review' in Bellenden Road
- South London Dreaming, an overview of prints by Tom Phillips at GX Gallery in Camberwell
- Tom Phillips's A Humument features in Austin Kleon's April 24th Ted talkSteal like an Artist TEDxKC
- A new version of p.303 adorns the cover of Yvone Sherwood's book on blasphemy Biblical Blaspheming pub Cambridge University Press
- Tom Phillips interviewed on Front Row, BBC Radio 4
- 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
- Exhibition of Tom Phillips book works at Tanya Peixoto's Bookartbookshop, London
- Limited edition prints A Humument p73: Here was a Woman and A Humument p168: Twilight Railings are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- 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
- 2013
- Life's Work a survey of over 1000 pages of A Humument opens in March at MassMoCA, North Adams, continues until January 2014
- A Humument USB is released, a credit card sized memory stick containing a flash animation of 112 new Humument pages read by Tom Phillips
- A Humument Conference is held at Birkbeck College 13th July
- Limited edition prints A Humument p41: Piccadilly Girl and A Humument p71: Bourgeois Pictures are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- Working closely with Rob Hadrill at Bookworks, Tom Phillips realises a Fortieth Anniversary special binding of the original Tetrad Press edition of A Humument, comprising two leather-bound boxes with original Humument fragment inserts, presented in a slipcase lined with endpapers from A Human Document by W.H. Mallock and incorporating the spines of two of the original Tetrad Press boxes
- 2014
- Perez Art Museum Miami, A Human Document: Selections from the Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry
- The Book Lovers exhibition at Fabra i Coats in Barcelona, features selected pages from A Humument and shows the evolution of these pages from the original untreated text, through the earliest versions beginning 1966 to the most recent pages completed 2014
- 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
- A Human Document by W.H. Mallock published for Kindle
- An exhibition of Humument prints at Searcy's Club at the top of the landmark Gherkin skyscraper, 30 St Mary Axe, London
- 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
- Tom Phillips makes A Humument haiku page for Shandy Hall
- Academic paper Deconstructing the Novel: The Critical Function of the Artist's Book by Kyle Schwartzlender, pub University of Oregon, 2nd December
- 2015
- Phillips completes a new version of Irma: The Score, pub. The Talfourd Press
- Pages from A Humument at Centre for Book Arts NYC. The exhibition, curated by Maddy Rosenberg, features artists who have exhibited projects at the space and invites them to return to their past presentation and continue the dialogue
- At Flowers Gallery NYC original works from Irma: The Score and an installation of 100 Humument pages showing both versions of the treated page alongside the Mallock originals
- Humument pages on a sporting theme are exhibited in the entrance lobby of the landmark building 201 Bishopsgate, London as part of a themed Summer of Sport display
- 100 Humument pages in three versions are exhibited at Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Boston.
- Venus Febriculosa – a website concerned with contemporary literature and the art and design of books – launches DESIGN CONTEST 10. The brief is to create an original visual and/or poetic work using any media or methods using Page 4 of A Human Document as the prima materia for this work. The winners are Alan Beattie, Jeanette Walsh, and Ali Francis Garcia
- At the 247th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Tom Phillips is accorded the rare honour of having an entire room dedicated to A Humument.
- 2016
- At Shandy Hall in May an exhibition A Humument: From Prequel to Sequel features the original artwork of the final 50 pages of A Humument which complete the second version.
- June, at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Tom Phillips exhibits four new Humument prints: A Humument p.81: Cern, The Past Began, A Humument p.107: Ring the Prime Minister, A Humument p.109: Silence and Stars, and A Humument p.317: The Letter F
- 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.
- In October A Humument is exhibited at the Ilkley Literature Festival with associated workshops and a talk by Patrick Wildgust and Lucy Shortis.
- On 27th October Thames & Hudson publish the sixth and final edition of A Humument on the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the work. The final edition is published in hardback, soft back and a signed and numbered special limited edition. To accompany this publication, an audio recording of Tom Phillips reading the complete final edition is available free on Soundcloud.
- On 14th November the Bodleian Library, Oxford celebrate the 50th anniversary edition with launch event and speakers Dr Gill Partington (University of Warwick) & Dr Julia Jordan (UCL); followed by dialogue between Professor Adam Smyth (English Faculty) and Tom Phillips.
- 15th November Flowers Gallery host a launch party and book signing for A Humument in London.