David Shrigley - Why We Got the Sack From the Museum (complete with all postcards - as issued)
SHRIGLEY, David (intro by Will Self)
Language: English
Published by Redstone Press, London, 1998
- First Edition
- Softcover
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1st printing. Large Quarto size (4to). in colour printed stiff card covers with printed black cloth spine. Unpaginated, approx. 120pp with all front and rear thick card leaves of perforated stiff card 'Postcards' still intact - a complete copy . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy. An excellent copy ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DBBARTIST in the Keywords search box . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.
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- Title
- David Shrigley - Why We Got the Sack From the Museum (complete with all postcards - as issued)
- Author
- SHRIGLEY, David (intro by Will Self)
- Publisher
- Redstone Press, London
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- SOFTCOVER
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1870003772
- ISBN 13
- 9781870003773
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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Review
As Will Self concedes in his introduction to Shrigley's new book Why We Got the Sack from the Museum, it is virtually impossible to explain the crude, anarchic humour and energy of Shrigley's drawings and observations. In fact, Shrigley's work can hardly be described as "drawing" at all, so unusual are his child-like, line depictions and comments on the dysfunctional urban world which he sees around him. Bees with human heads refuse to land on vegetation dismissed as "crap"; Shrigley invites the reader to attach postcards to car windows informing their owners that they are in fact the result of laboratory experiments involving rat droppings; a hastily drawn cup of tea is advertised for sale, £100 or nearest offer, white with two sugars. And so the book goes on, extremely funny and playful. Its darker and more cynical moments are made even funnier, and then disturbing, by the sheer naivety of the drawings.
The fusion of word and image is perplexing but brilliant, and is wonderfully synthesised by the consummate production of the Redstone Press, whose offbeat presentation perfectly matches Shrigley's concise, surreal style. David Shrigley is an extraordinary and significant artist, and Why We Got the Sack From the Museum is an extraordinary book. --Jerry Brotton.
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