Doodaa. The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge. A trography by Ralph Steadman
Bloomsbury 2002
Stron 333.
130 ilustracji na kredowych wklejkach /czarno-białe i kolorowe/
Format 16x24 cm.
What we have here is not only an amusing tale, but an important document in art history, an insider's account of what it has been like to be an artist at a time when the only apt artistic response to the atrocities of the twentieth century anyone has so far discovered is the aggressively inane and nonsensical art called Dada' KURT VONNEGUT
Creator of his own inimitable visions of Freud, Leonardo, Orwell, Alice, and the Great Gonzo, Ralph Steadman now offers the triography of his artistic alter ego, the redoubtable Gavin Twinge. The fictional Twinge, last remnant of a nineteenth-century 'domestic engineering' dynasty, founder of the Doodaaa school, and pioneer of Barcode Art, Shredded Literature, and Centrifugal Abstraction, is the original angry voice of contemporary art.
From the moment Steadman first meets Twinge in a London bookshop, it becomes his quest to get to the heart of the genius's dark mystery, and to discover how, after Duchamp and the school of Dada, art lost its soul. Drawing inspiration from Twinge's fellow Doodaaaists—among them Lily Potsdam (Whiplash Muralist), Schlemiel Weiss (Gnat's Blood Organic Watercolorist) and Aaron Dickley (Primal Scream Environmentalist)— Steadman proves to be a truly inspired biographer, matching Twinge drink for drink as he prepares for the great exhibition that will crown his life's work. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white in Steadman's (and Twinge's) inimitable style, Doodaaa is a biography standing at the center of a hall of mirrors.
'Don't write, Ralph - you'll bring shame on your family' HUNTER S. THOMPSON
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments: Honorary Doodaaists xiii
P'--.'.lu XVlii
Introduction: An Encounter with Gavin Twinge 1 Distillation Art Gallery between pages 14 and 15 PART I
1 British Art: World's End 17
2 Gavin Twinge: Tite Circumstances 25
3 The Nineteenth-Century Ancestors: The Colonic Legacy 37 A Early Years: Artist's Block 55
5 Arrondissements: Bodily Parts of Paris 62
6 Schooldays: Taught by Tyrants 95 Flart: Aerial Abstracts 110
8 Vera Steadman: Starlit Auntie and Muse 115
9 A Blot on the Stave: Musical Diversions 128
Family Photo Album middlefold PART II
10 Christ's Bride Stripped Bare by Her Religious Mechanics (already) 137
11 Doodaaa: the Philosophy of French Plumbing 172
12 Doodaaaists: the Nietzsche Feature 186
13 Peasant Heaven: the Anti-Fete 213
14 Fugitive Doodaaaists: the Slunt Factor 234
