Glen Baxter (artist)  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Revision as of 18:55, 16 October 2019; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Jump to: navigation, search

“I prefer the fantasy where everyday objects can suddenly become more interesting. I really like that aspect of it. I am in agreement with Breton’s definition of ‘marvelous’: ‘The marvelous has never been better defined than as being in complete contrast to the fantastic.’ In my work I present the impossible happening in a world where impossibility is the rule (as opposed to works of fantasy, where we see the impossible happening in a world where impossibility is outlawed).” --Interviewed by Bill Zavatsky in 1976 (Out of Sun, Vol. V. No. 1, 1983) via Rue Hazard, John Latta


"Glen Baxter is an artist in the distinguished tradition of Lewis Carroll, Sax Rohmer, Marquis de Sade, Raymond Roussel, Luther Burbank and the Comte de Lautréamont" (John Ashberry, The New York Times)

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Glen Baxter, nicknamed "Colonel Baxter," is an English cartoonist, noted for his surrealist, nonsensical absurdist drawings. Born in Leeds in 1944, Baxter was trained at the Leeds College of Art. His images, and their corresponding captions, fuse art and language inspired by pulp fiction and adventure comics with intellectual jokes and references. Baxter's art has been collected in numerous books, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The Independent on Sunday. His simple line-drawings often feature cowboys, gangsters, explorers, and schoolchildren, who utter incongruous intellectual statements regarding art and philosophy.

Quotes

Books

  • The Impending Gleam (1981)
  • His Life: The Years of Struggle (1983)
  • Atlas, Le dernier terrain vague (1983)
  • L'heure du thé (1990)
  • Welcome to the Weird World of Glen Baxter (1989)
  • Ma vie: le jeunes années (1990)
  • The Billiard Table Murders (1990)
  • Glen Baxter Returns to Normal (1992) (translated as Retour à la normale, 1992)
  • The Collected Blurtings of Baxter (1994)
  • The Further Blurtings of Baxter (1994)
  • The Wonder Book of Sex (1995) (translated as Wundersame Welt der Erotik, 1996, and Le livre de l'amour, 1997).
  • Glen Baxter's Gourmet Guide (1997)
  • Blizzards of Tweed (1999)
  • Meurtres a la Table de Billard (2000)
  • Trundling Grunts (2002)
  • The Unhinged World of Glen Baxter (2002)




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Glen Baxter (artist)" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools