Altered Book: Véronique Plesch on The Many Paradoxes of Tom Phillips’s ‘A Humument’

Sponsored by The Baxter Society

The Baxter Society -  May 15, at 5:00 pm eastern - 
at Glickman Library in Portland Maine, and on Zoom.

Véronique Plesch, Professor of Art History at Colby College and chair of
 the Art Department, holds advanced degrees in Art History and Medieval 
French Literature from the University of Geneva, and from Princeton 
University, where she received her Ph.D. in Art History. She will speak 
on “The Many Paradoxes of Tom Phillips’s A Humument.” 
A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel is an altered book by British artist 
Tom Phillips. It is a piece of art created over W.H. Mallock’s 1892 novel 
A Human Document whose title results from the partial deletion of the original 
title: A Human document.

To attend, please contact Reid Byers at reidbyers@gmail.com