Thursday marks the 75th birthday of the artist Tom Phillips and much celebration is in order. He is best known for his ongoing project A Humument, new editions of which, in print and digital, coincide ...

After five decades of mutating an obscure Victorian novel, Thomas Phillips's A Humument is printed in its final form. “In the years since Mallock wrote his novel, the English language has itself sent ...

At around noon on 5 November 1966, the artists Tom Phillips and RB Kitaj were hunting for bargains at Austin's Furniture Repository on Peckham Rye in London when Phillips made a casual boast to his ...

When the new edition of “A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel” by Tom Phillips appears at the end of the month, one of the great works of the last 50 years, in any artistic medium, will have come to ...

2013 is the 40th anniversary of The Humument by Tom Phillips. To mark the occasion, Phillips prepared a special binding of his last five copies of the book in the Tetrad Press edition of 1970 to 1973.

He’s now in his 80s but the man who painted Beckett, illustrated Hell and made art out of beard trimmings, is still fired up. As his half-backwards opera Irma returns, we join the great ...

The Royal Academician Tom Phillips, who is 73 and based in London, is a traditional painter and draughtsman, best known for his portrait commissions. But his artistic activities are nothing if not ...

NORTH ADAMS — Neither a novel, a poem, an artist’s book, or a graphic novel, Tom Phillips’s “A Humument,” on show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, is a little bit of all these things ...

Tom Phillips' A Humument is one of the great oddities of literary and indeed artistic history. It is also, quite simply, a great book. On November 5, 1966, the artist selected, at random, W.H. Mallock ...

The polymath British artist Tom Phillips—who worked as a portrait painter, musician, concrete poet, curator, composer and librettist of operas and served as long-standing chairman of the Exhibitions ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter An artist's re-working of an obscure Victorian novel might not seem, on the face of it, to be the most obvious subject matter for an ...

Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. An exhibition depicting how Phillips transformed an obscure Victorian ...