A Companion to Tom Phillips

Livio Belloï (Editor), Michel Delville (Editor),

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Category: Art, Literature, Media and Visual Culture

Language: English

DOI: 10.11116/9789461668097

ISBN: 9789462705487

Publication date: December 1, 2026

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Category: Art, Literature, Media and Visual Culture

Language: English

DOI: 10.11116/9789461668097

ISBN: 9789461668097

Publication date: December 1, 2026

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Funded by: Path to Open

Category: Art, Literature, Media and Visual Culture

Language: English

DOI: 10.11116/9789461668097

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Publication date: December 1, 2026

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Summary
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The first comprehensive scholarly collection on British artist Tom Phillips, situating his interdisciplinary oeuvre within contemporary conceptual and intermedia art.

A Companion to Tom Phillips is the first critical volume devoted entirely to the British artist Tom Phillips (1937–2022) and his groundbreaking work across visual art, poetry, collage, music, translation, and performance. Bringing together international scholars from literature, art history, media studies, and poetics, the collection explores Phillips’s celebrated masterpiece A Humument alongside his broader intermedial practice. The essays examine themes of erasure, collage, materiality, identity, and artistic experimentation, showing how Phillips reimagined the relationship between word and image. Central to the volume is A Humument, the extraordinary “treated novel” Phillips developed over five decades from W. H. Mallock’s largely forgotten Victorian novel A Human Document (1892), transforming it into one of the most innovative artistic projects of the twentieth century. Accessible yet intellectually ambitious, this volume demonstrates why Phillips remains a central figure for understanding contemporary intermedia art and the creative reuse of cultural memory.

This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/

Livio Belloï

Livio Belloï is Senior Research Associate at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and Associate Professor of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Liège. His research focuses on visual studies, intermediality, and the relations between text and image.

Michel Delville

Michel Delville is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Liège, Belgium, and the author and editor of numerous works on intermediality, experimental writing, and contemporary culture.

Véronique Plesch

Vincent Broqua

Maureen Hosay

Laura Digregorio

Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor

Maria Elena Minuto

Steven Hendricks

Wojciech Drąg

Peter Middleton

This volume not only brings that vast, evolving experiment newly into view but also demonstrates why Phillips’s project remains indispensable for thinking about the porous boundaries between text, image, and artistic practice today—boundaries whose instability is newly foregrounded in the age of algorithmic chaos. For readers and scholars of contemporary art, literature, and book history alike, A Companion to Tom Phillips will quickly become an essential point of departure. - Mayar Mahshid, University of Innsbruck

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