Doodaaa: The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge

Doodaaa: The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge by Steadman, Ralph. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781582342658.

Ralph Steadmans alter-autobiography is a work of comical genius as well as a profound commentary on the state of contemporary art. Creator of his own inimitable visions of Freud, Leonardo, Orwell, Alice, and the Great Gonzo, Steadman now offers the triography 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 Centrifugal Abstraction, is the original angry voice of contemporary art. From the moment Steadman first meets Twinge in a London bookshop, it becomes his quest to get to the heart of the misery that drives the lost soul of Art. Drawing inspiration from Twinges fellow Doodaaists-among them Lily Potsdam (Whiplash Muralist), Schlemiel Weiss (Gnats blood Organic Watercolorist) and Aaron Dickley (Primal Scream Environmentalist)-Steadman proves to be a truly inspired biographer, matching Twinge drink for drink as he prepares for the great exhibition that will crown his lifes work. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white in Steadmans (and Twinges) inimitable style, Doodaa is a biography standing at the center of a hall of mirrors.