Véronique Plesch to Speak on an Altered Victorian Novel

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.”

The meeting will be held at Glickman Library at USM, and on Zoom, on May 15, at 5:00 pm.

PLEASE NOTE THE TIME AND DATE CHANGE.

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.