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Not a typical biography, Ralph Steadman examines Freud using Freud's 1905 essay on Jokes and illustrates his points with 75 drawings. The result is a masterful interplay of text and illustration, visual and verbal puns, and unexpected insight.
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Steadman's text here is as witty as his drawings. A delightful, beautifully organized and illustrated guide to the night skies... an excellent reference text, rich in content and detail. Loaded with photographs and illustrations that accompany lucid, instructive text... helps would-be astronomers find their way around the night sky Strangely compelling.... Steadman's artwork takes on a life of its own.--Terry Peters"North Shore News" (03/09/2007) Steadman's text here is as witty as his drawings, both illustrating not only Freud's classification of jokes, but also the events of Freud's life. Strangely compelling....In typical Steadman style the drawings go beyond a normal perception of an idea and leap ahead into the bizarre mindscape where Steadman's artwork takes on a life of its own.--Terry Peters"North Shore News" (03/09/2007)
About the Author
Ralph Steadman has been a cartoonist since 1956, starting as a caustic observer of Britain's political and social scene. He is well known as the illustrator of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Steadman's work appears regularly in newspapers and magazines, including Rolling Stone and the Atlantic Monthly, and his many published books include Tales of the Weirrd and Alice in Wonderland.
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Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. A typically almost incredible work by Steadman, the culmination of more than 3 years research and work - - or to put it another way - "One genius takes on another. . . a wildly humorous exercise in bending, stretching and speculating on the activities of the so-called Father of Psychoanalysis. Ralph Steadman wields his shrewd wit and fierce pen to highlight the movements of Freud's life and career, from early childhood to the moment of death. Through a masterful interplay of text and illustration, each scene is transformed into a 'joking situation,' which the artist hilariously examines according to the techniques discussed by Freud himself in his 1905 book, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious." Large format, illustrated with more than 50 major drawings and 25 vignettes. Index. 118 pp. Near fine in a very good minus dust jacket. (several short tears and other edgewear to the dj, original price of $17.95 on flap). Seller Inventory # 81275
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published by Paddington Press Ltd, New York & London in 1979, here is the first hardback printing of Ralph Steadman's Sigmund Freud. 118 pages, olive green cloth binding, red lettering, supreme b/w typical Steadman illustrations throughout, the book is in very good condition with a blue ink dedication to a previous owner on the reverse of the front free end paper. There is some dusty spotting to the top page edges and some occasional minor bumping and scuffing to the boards. The price-clipped dust jacket is good, with some edge creasing and chipping plus 4 smallish tears(one approximately 20mm in length at the top of the book, near the spine at the front. The other tears approx 5mm-15mm in length are again at the top but of the jacket, but this time at the rear. A decent 1st edition offering. The book is oversized and heavy and therefore to areas outside the UK, additional postage must be reluctantly applied to keep the business viable as follows: Europe £5, Rest of the World £12. Seller Inventory # 9550
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