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Tom Philips: HUMUMENT W2 [2016] hardback PREFI and how to adapt aIn 1966 the artist Tom Phillips discovered A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W. H. Mallock, and set himself the task of altering every page, by painting, collage or cut up techniques, to create an entirely new version. Some of Mallock's original text remains in tact and through the illustrated pages the character of Bill Toge, Phillips's anti hero, and his romantic plight emerges. First published in 1973, A Humument as Phillips