WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? : THE ESSENTIAL DAVID SHRIGLEY

SHRIGLEY, DAVID/ SELF, WILL (INT)

ISBN 10: 0393082474 / ISBN 13: 9780393082470

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages. Seller Inventory # 825097

Synopsis:

By turns hilarious, satirical, and brilliant, David Shrigley's full-page illustrations—a combination of drawing, comics, photography, and sculpture—are sui generis: uproariously funny, pleasantly unnerving, and, most of all, really, really cool. Neither "graphic novel" nor "art book," What the Hell Are You Doing? celebrates the surreal world of the artist who created Ants Have Sex in Your Beer and To Make the Meringue You Must Beat the Egg Whites Until They Look Like This—the man Dave Eggers calls "probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived."

Review: With a casual gesture Shrigley points to that hideous shape whose name I've never known-and then he names it. . . . I'm laughing while frantically searching for a pen, so desperate to capture the feeling he has unearthed in me.--Miranda July

This year's best gift book, for a crazy person you really, really like.... It's a funny, sick, morally stimulating mind-bender, the best bathroom book of the new decade.--Dwight Garner

Starred review. Taken cumulatively, Shrigley's comic illustrations and words have the effect of a miraculous mental booster drug.

Shrigley's bold-lined drawings which at first may appear like crude Sharpie doodles, are intentionally heavy-handed and display the artist's observations on what is a crude world. Often laugh-out-loud hilarious and occasionally mildly disturbing...

The work of David Shrigley is sort of everything you could ever ask from scratchy line drawings, and a whole lot more....It's weird and spastic, and uncomfortable, and savage, and profound, and somehow tender, behind all that.

Shrigley's work is hard to peg down....It's simple yet brilliant. But one thing that is always consistent--Shrigley's stuff is always hilarious.

It is useless, attempting to categorize David Shrigley as an artist. His work has a free and easy feel, a rough-draft quality reinforced by his imprecise lines and habit of marking textual errors in finished pieces....Shrigley's work is by turns playful, caustic, and grotesque--even, at times, incisive--but each of these distinct tones comes across as genuine.--John McIntyre

Bibliographic Details

Title: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? : THE ESSENTIAL...
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good