Glen Baxter is renowned for his absurdist drawings, whose overall effect often resembles literary nonsense. His works, inspired by pulp fiction and adventure comics, employ art and language with intellectual jokes and references. His simple line drawings often feature characters like cowboys, gangsters, or explorers, who utter incongruous statements about art and philosophy, creating a unique and provocative style.
Since failing to win the Nobel Prize in 2001, Glen Baxter disappeared to a remote hillside fort in Holland to continue his research on vole classification. Some ten months later, he made his way to Soho Square where he was reported to be in possession of a fustian-lined hamper containing a manuscript that was to be labelled: Trundling Grunts.
Glen Baxter's art appeals to a universal sense of the ridiculous. His drawings fuse the familiar with the absurd and breathe life into verbal and visual cliches, whether literary, social or cultural. This book brings together 35 of his artworks.
Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads' Songs
Blending musical influences from blues, country, reggae and classical music with their own original style, Talking Heads are "the thinking man's rock band" whose last four albums have each sold over one million copies. 60 four-color plates.
Surreal and absurd pictures of cowboys, soldiers, criminals, inventors, and students are accompanied by humorously incongruous captions
