Glen Baxter è rinomato per i suoi disegni absurdi, il cui effetto complessivo assomiglia spesso al nonsense letterario. Le sue opere, ispirate alla fiction pulp e ai fumetti d'avventura, impiegano arte e linguaggio con battute e riferimenti intellettuali. I suoi semplici disegni lineari presentano spesso personaggi come cowboy, gangster o esploratori, che pronunciano affermazioni incongruenti sull'arte e sulla filosofia, creando uno stile unico e provocatorio.
Since failing to win the Nobel Prize in 2001, Glen Baxter disappeared to a remote hillside fort in Holland to continue his research on vole classification. Some ten months later, he made his way to Soho Square where he was reported to be in possession of a fustian-lined hamper containing a manuscript that was to be labelled: Trundling Grunts.
Glen Baxter's art appeals to a universal sense of the ridiculous. His drawings fuse the familiar with the absurd and breathe life into verbal and visual cliches, whether literary, social or cultural. This book brings together 35 of his artworks.
Surreal and absurd pictures of cowboys, soldiers, criminals, inventors, and students are accompanied by humorously incongruous captions