How Are You Feeling? At the Centre of the Inside of The Human Brain’s Mind
- 4 Oct 2012
- 9780857867216
- £16.99
- 208 pp
- 149×196mm
- 4 Oct 2012
- 9780857867230
- £13.59
- 208 pp
In a few words
A profound, unsettling and very funny new book from the cult artist, nominated for the Turner Prize 2013
In a few words
A profound, unsettling and very funny new book from the cult artist, nominated for the Turner Prize 2013
Funny and profound and surprising all at the same time
Harry Hill
David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lives
Dave Eggers
Funny and profound and surprising all at the same time
Harry Hill
David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lives
Dave Eggers
More about
the book
How are you feeling?
Are you alright?
If you could open your mind like a handbag and show us what was inside, what would we see?
A bit of a mess?
Don’t worry.
This is a self-help book.
You’ll feel better very soon.
More about
the book
At the centre of the inside of the human brain’s mind is the place where one can find the reasons why human beings behave in such peculiar, delightful and unpleasant ways. I, the author of this book (D.Shrigley BA (Hons)) shall take the reader on a journey around the human brain and along the way I shall point-out various things that are worthy of discussion. We will start our journey in the eye as that is a common entrance place to the brain. I shall ruminate about the eye and its properties. I shall tell how the eye’s seeing is sorted-out in the brain and the magical nature of it and I shall warn of all the things that can go wrong in this sorting-out process.
After the eye, we shall travel to the ear and discuss the world that is heard and how it is heard in the brain and all the awful things that can go wrong; some of them amusing and some not amusing. Taste and smell will of course be covered as these are also things of interest to the brain. We will also touch upon touch, so to speak. We will also touch upon the scalp, but only lightly and briefly. Once we have looked at the brain’s government of the senses we shall start to talk about the really interesting stuff. Like how the brain decides what is right and wrong and why some people are very charming and others behave like monkeys.
Some other questions that might be dealt-with are as follows: Could my brain be removed and replaced with a computer? Why can’t I remember my wife’s name? I can constantly hear a faint whistling sound; is it the sound of my brain functioning?
On the kink of his line Shrigley can shift effortlessly from pathos to paranoia. And his work is funny - very funny; his timing devastatingly effective
Will Self
Excellent . . . There's more to Shrigley than his knowing nods to high art
Shrigley deserves his immense popularity. For almost 20 years he has produced a ceaseless stream of ideas, observations, jokes and strange insights in the form of left-field drawings that have appeared in broadsheet newspapers, books and magazines as well as galleries. Deadpan, escapist and distinctively cack-handed, they make up a little world in themselves
Simultaneously unsettling and humorous
On the kink of his line Shrigley can shift effortlessly from pathos to paranoia. And his work is funny - very funny; his timing devastatingly effective
Will Self
Shrigley deserves his immense popularity. For almost 20 years he has produced a ceaseless stream of ideas, observations, jokes and strange insights in the form of left-field drawings that have appeared in broadsheet newspapers, books and magazines as well as galleries. Deadpan, escapist and distinctively cack-handed, they make up a little world in themselves
[A] master of modern surrealism.
Shrigley mines a mordant, scatological seam, conjuring up the dark tradition of British humour that threw up Tony Hancock and Chris Morris.
David Shrigley
View profileDavid Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has worked as a sculptor, photographer and ‘environment artist’ and, most famously, as a cartoonist and illustrator. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013 and his work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonny Prince Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4 and he was invited to hold a major, four-month retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. He lives and works in Glasgow.
David Shrigley
View profileDavid Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has worked as a sculptor, photographer and ‘environment artist’ and, most famously, as a cartoonist and illustrator. He has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2013. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonny Prince Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4 and he was recently invited to hold a major, four-month retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. What the Hell are You Doing? The Essential David Shrigley was published by Canongate in 2010. He lives and works in Glasgow.
