A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, Fourth Edition

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In the mid-1960s, inspired by William Burroughs's "cut-up" writing technique, Tom Phillips bought an obscure Victorian novel for three pence—W. H. Mallock's 1892 novel, A Human Document. He began cutting and pasting the extant text, treating the pages with gouache and ink, isolating the words that interested him while scoring out unwanted words or painting over them. The result was A Humument, and the first version appeared in 1970.

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 cult classic. Phillips has continued to revisit Mallock's novel, and this new fourth edition follows its predecessors by incorporating revisions and reworkings—over a hundred pages are replaced by new versions—and celebrates an artistic enterprise that is itself some forty years old and still actively a work in progress. 368 color illustrations.

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Image (con)Textual.......2006-10-02

Truly an elegant, messy piece of work.
Tom Phillips' Humument is one of the most affecting marriages of image and text that I have viewed/read. Visaully, it is stunning, with its layers of subsumed text and inventive imagery. Moments of profundity bordering on Zen surface intermittently, whilst bawdy puns [...] up beside.
If you're looking for sustained, easily interpreted narrative, then this book simply is not for you. If, on the other hand, you long for a story that is as much in your head/heart, as on the page, I can heartily recommend A Humument.

This Book Stands Alone.......2002-01-21

I own multiple copies and give them away to worthy friends. Visually, artistically, and intellectually stunning, this masterpiece is unique in the world of art/literature. The author/artist Tom Phillips began this work in the 1960s, and first published it in book form in the 1980s. He called the result of his decades of effort The Humument and it is a completely illustrated version of W. H. Mallock's 19th Century novel A Human Document. Each page is a well conceived and compelling work of art. On each page the author leaves only a few of the original words revealed. These surviving phrases tell, in prose and poetry, the pathetic love story of Bill Toge. Symbiotically linked to the art itself, the preserved text, and its tale of Toge, reveal a story Phillips found submerged within the original text, a story which Mallock neither wrote nor intended. Phillips calls his work `mining for meaning'. Everyone who has received this book from me has had great difficulty putting it down until they had read/absorbed/experienced/lived/studied it from cover to cover. If there is such a thing as a priceless book, The Humument would be a good candidate for the category.

Amazing gift.......2001-12-19

I received this book as a gift about 10 years ago and have yet to tire of it. It is beautiful and funny, surreal, creepy and profound.

A highly original work.......2001-07-26

I love this book. I first learnt of Tom Phillips when he recently did the cover of an album by a band called Dark Star, and then was introduced to his work whilst on work experience last summer. I hunted down a copy of this book, and then devoured it completely. at times moving, at times funny, and all the time completely incredible to just look and marvel at. the art work is great. ingenuitive, original and inspired. this book seems to be getting harder and harder to find... buy one while you can.

Elegant, eloquent, many-leveled masterpiece.......1999-05-08

As a poet and artist, I am interested in the automatic art practiced here, and it's ability to reveal the unconscious issues of importance in our lives. The work hails Burroughs' and his method of drawing poetry from the chaotic texts around him. Unlike Boroughs, Phillips has used an entire novel, and some of its original author's shortcomings, and indeed the shortcomings of the genre from which it is drawn, to make individual points about the artist's current world, some one hundred years later. The book can be "read" sequentially or individual pages shown as moments of art, from an amber necklace that displays an entire life. (To borrow a phrase from Vonnegut.) I'm also interested in his method. According to the author's notes, he drew this book at random, using the first book that he could afford with his current pocket change. (Amounting I believe to about two dollars,) and then he treated the pages within. This incorporation of the everyday, and the use of simple inks has enabled a spare time, relatively inexpensive project to become a work of art relating the human condition in a manner simular to life itself, incorporating the one page at a time method of daily life, that amounts to a beautiful work. Truly the art of the proletariat, not some etherial "l'art por l'art" that can only be experienced or appreciated by the upper class. Phillips states in his intro that he has yet to find a work of such depth and vocabulary to apply other new treatments, but for those aspiring artists wishing to emulate him, I have an excellent choice, an underappreciated, yet highly available novel of the Harlem Rennaisance, Della Larsen's "Quicksand," which covers several worlds of angst and incorporates a panopoly of words.

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NFORMATIONAL FILM YEAR BOOK 947 A FILM FOCUS BOOK ALBYN PRESS, 42 FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH, 2 FILM FOCUS B O O 1C HE P A ub L li B s Y he M d by P Ft E S S - 42 Frederick Street Edinburgh 2. Page INTRODUCTION 7 THE NON-THEATRICAL CINEMA. Norman Wilson 9 DOCUMENTARY IS NEITHER SHORT NOR LONG. Paul Rotha - 13 REPORT FROM AMERICA. John Grierson 20 THE FILM IN INDUSTRY. Andrew Buchanan ... - 27 MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT. K. L Lockstone - - - - 31 FILMS MOVE INTO THE CLASSROOM. Forsyth Hardy 34 FILMS AND-UNESCO. Basil Wright 38 WHAT THE TEACHER WANTS. James B. Frizell 42 THE CULTURAL FILM. Oliver Bell 47 THE EDUCATIONAL FILM IN SCOTLAND. C. M. - - Boyle-50 THE FILM IN EIRE. Liam O. Laoghaire 53 FILMS FOR CHILDREN. Forsyth Hardy 56 ENTERTAINMENTS DUTY 6 BUYERS GUIDE. George H. Sewelf 65 DOCUMENTARY STILLS OF THE YEAR -----81 INFORMATIONAL FILMS OF THE YEAR 99 ORGANISATIONS - 123 FILM SOCIETIES 131 SCIENTIFIC FILM SOCIETIES 136 CINE SOCIETIES 138 5 CONTENTS continued Page INFORMATIONAL FILM PRODUCERS I4J STUDIOS AND CUTTING ROOMS l49 STOCK SHOTS AND RECORDS I5 LABORATORY SERVICE ISI RLM STOCK l52 LIBRARIES AND DISTRIBUTORS - 153 APPARATUS l63 ONE STOCKISTS SPECIALIST CINEMAS 7 3 PUBLICATIONS 175 DOCUMENTARY NEWS LETTER Published bi-monthly SUBSCRIPTIONS post free anywhere in the world SIX SHILLINGS A YEAR SINGLE COPIES ONE SHILLING Send your subscription to DOCUMENTARY NEWS LETTER 34 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. I GERHARD 4253 In this first issue of the Informational Film Year Book an attempt is made to provide not only a reference guide and directory, but an authoritative survey of the informa tional film in its various branches. This is a period both of transition and of initiation, and many of the contributions in these pages indicate the lines on which the non-theatrical cinema is likely to develop in the immediate future. The development of the 16-mm. film is going to be rapid and expansive, and will have a great influence on the cinema trade, on educa tion and on community life. The Informational Film Year Book will endeavour to record the progress and discuss the problems of the documentary and educational film in all its aspects, and aims to provide an information service which will be of increasing use to everyone concerned with the produc tion or projection of informational films. Under present conditions the Directory Sections, extensive and representative as they are, cannot expect to be complete. Many firms are only gradually getting back into production, and others have come into being too late for inclusion in the present issue. In apologising 7 for any unintentional omissions or errors, it should be explained that in some cases the requested information was not supplied by the firms or organisations concerned. Thanks are due to all who have so kindly co-operated in the production of this pioneer issue of the Informational Film Year Book, and, in particular, to the Central Office of Information. To ensure that full and correct information regarding your firm, organisation, or society is included in the i INFORMATIONAL FILM YEAR BOOK FOR 1948 please Send a note of complete particulars immediately to FILM FOCUS PUBLICATIONS 42 FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH, The Non-theatrical Cinema Its Opportunities and Responsibilities NORMAN WILSON The development of the 16-mm. film is one of the most important advances in the history of cinema comparable to the development of mechanical typesetting and printing and the introduction of the cheap edition in publishing, which brought books within the reach of everyone. Because people in the towns have had easy access to the cinema, we are apt to forget that there are millions of people in the world and numbers of them in these islands who have never seen a film. Even those in the towns have only been able to see what the cinemas cared to present. At best their choice has been limited to the offerings of a few competitive, or non-competitive, picture houses...

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Lights, Camera, Action! 2: Another Fun Look at the Movies (Cover-to-Cover Informational Books: Thrills & Adv)
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The hedge wizard may seem a poor substitue for a wizard or sorcerer but this is a dangerous misconception. The hedge wizard is a rural, backwater magician who relies as much on superstition as actual magic to make a living. Specialising in the use of cantrips, he can find new power in minor incantations often ignored by other spellcasters.

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Management and Business sections of all bookstores are usually filled with hundred and hundreds of serious business books. An employee of today's modern, high-pressure corporate life will find very few books written on the lighter and satirical side of things we normally (or abnormally) do in today's workplace. This book attempts to fill that gap, and is a book about HUMOR in Office & Corporate life. The contents of the book are totally imaginative and are meant to be taken with a "pinch of salt", though the paper used may not be edible. A copy of this good for nothing book on every employee's desk will ensure that people switch off doing their work in a serious manner, and start doing the same work in a joyful manner. After all, everyone loves their jobs, but hate the work. Isn't it true?

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a reader in Seattle, WA.......2003-12-04

Don't we all need more humor at work? I do. And this book gave it to me. Great stuff. I'd recommend it to everyone.

A Techo with a sense of humour? Surely an oxymoron?.......2003-12-02

Thejendra!! Can you come and join our technical team?? We are desperate for someone with your sense of the absurd to lighten up our day!! With your tongue firmly lodged in your cheek, your delightful "Corporate Wildlife" pokes fun at the IT industry and all its 'quirky' idiosyncrasies that plague us mere 'end-users' daily - nay hourly!! Just the book to have by your PC while waiting for the machine to reboot, the application to be downloaded or the Help Desk to get back to you!!

'Corporate Wildlife' - Indeed!.......2003-12-01

A copy of BS Thejendra's book "Corporate Wildlife" is a touch of whimsy that should be on the desk of every office employee as an antidote to combat the stress created in the wild and wacky world of business and industry.

Through his marvelous sense of humor, Thejendra details the pitfalls of the workplace that can bring a smile to the face of a frustrated hireling because, as a voice of experience, the "Tej" has obviously "been there and done that" himself. Otherwise, how could he fashion a literary piece with such biting satire?

Very funny.......2003-11-26

An excellent book on office humor. A must for every corporate library

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This book made me laugh out loud, and that's saying a lot. I especially liked the Resume of a Terrorist. The author sheds some very humorous light on corporate life, or, actually, corporate wildlife.

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Every nation in the Americas—from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba—has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin’ Las Américas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, the Andes, and the Southern Cone as well as among Latinos in the United States.
The contributors include experts in music, history, literature, culture, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros and rockeras. The multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives they bring to the topic serve to address a broad range of fundamental questions about rock in Latin and Latino America, including: Why did rock become such a controversial cultural force in the region? In what ways has rock served as a medium for expressing national identities? How are unique questions of race, class, and gender inscribed in Latin American rock? What makes Latin American rock Latin American? Rockin’ Las Américas is an essential book for anyone who hopes to understand the complexities of Latin American culture today.

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Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of rock in Latin/o America.(Book Review) : An article from: Notes
Rick McRae
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Vintage Burroughs guides you on this Side Trip..........2001-08-23

Get ready for the reissue of Charles Gatewood's 1975 classic, Sidetripping! Gatewood was begining to explore the edges in the late 60s and early 70s, lurking alongside any events happening on the city streets: protests, marches, fairs, parades, celebrations. New Orleans and NYC provided moist atmospheres for expression, much of that 'caught' here by Gatewood. While on assignment for Rolling Stone in London, Gatewood got to hang with Burroughs and Gysin. That meeting fruited into Burroughs providing the text. To compliment the images perfectly, read the words in your head using Burroughs distinctive, grating rasp.

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Sidetripping.
WILLIAM S. & GATEWOOD, CHARLES. BURROUGHS
Manufacturer: New York:Strawberry Hill Publishing,
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Sidetripping

Manufacturer: Strawberry Hill New York
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