DooDaaa: A Triography.
by Steadman, Ralph
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0747560803
- ISBN 13
- 9780747560807
- Seller
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About This Item
London:: Bloomsbury,, 2002.. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by Steadman. Ralph Steadman, the creator of his own inimitable visions of Freud, Dante, Orwell, Alice and the Great Gonzo, now offers the (auto)biography of his artistic alter ego, the redoubtable Gavin Twinge. Twinge, last remnant of a nineteenth-century 'domestic engineering' dynasty, founder of the DOODAAA school, and pioneer of Barcode Art, Shredded Literature and Aerial Abstracts, is the original angry voice of contemporary art. The question Steadman sets out to answer is: Who hurt Gavin into art? Was it his mother, who fought in the Spanish Civil War? Or Gavin's travelling salesman 'father'? Or indeed, his biological father, the little-known Beat poet Howell Northern? Or Silas Gonad, the sinister doctor who attended at his birth? Or the art establishment itself? From the moment Steadman first meets Twinge, it becomes his quest to get to the heart of the mystery. Whether he has to penetrate the deep south of the South of France by London taxi, where Gavin finds inspiration with his fellow Doodaaists or witness the creation of the banned installation 'The Philosophyof French Plumbing', Steadman sticks by his man, matching him drink.
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- Bookseller
- Gregor Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25734
- Title
- DooDaaa: A Triography.
- Author
- Steadman, Ralph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First UK Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0747560803
- ISBN 13
- 9780747560807
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 2002.
- Keywords
- literature
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