A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

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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. A further Humument collage work Memory After Memory published as a limited edition print for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 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)

A treated text by Tom Phillips is used on the cover of Heather McHugh's essay collection Broken English: Poetry and Partiality 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 Humument p4 Nine Eleven and A Humument p7 Scribe the Story screen prints in editions of 100 exhibited at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 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 BrahmsBritish Council exhibition 'Tom Phillips Graphics' tours for 8 years to France, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Jamaica finishing in Iraq in 1988 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 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 Dante in His Study by Tom Phillips. In the late 1970s, he began work on a new translation of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated with his own prints

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 JuneLimited edition prints A Humument p73: Here was a Woman and A Humument p168: Twilight Railings 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