Book : How Are You Feeling? At The Centre Of The Inside Of..

-Titulo Original : How Are You Feeling? At The Centre Of The Inside Of The Human Brain

-Fabricante :

W. W. Norton & Company

-Descripcion Original:

A shocking, ethically dubious, disastrously funny, illustrated self-help book about why human beings behave in such peculiar, delightful, and unpleasant ways. The human brain can be a bizarre and disturbing instrument. Thankfully, David Shrigley is prepared to help you with the most vexing aspects of your psyche: alcoholism (“it is terrific fun, of course, but there are problems with it”); mental illness (“unlike a hairdryer, when a brain goes wrong ‘you cannot just throw it in the river and get another one’ ”); and neurology (“We all have internal wiring. Sometimes this wiring comes loose. . . . Check for loose wires and re-fasten them with glue.”). How Are You Feeling? takes readers on a journey between the ears, explaining how the brain decides what is right and wrong and why some people are very charming and others behave like monkeys. Dave Eggers has called Shrigley “probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.” His side-splitting illustrated handbook questions the stability of self, the meaning of help, and whether that self was ever worth helping. Color throughout From Publishers Weekly This humor book masquerading as a self-help volume is a cartoon guide to your mental problems, and though it doesnt provide much in the way of solutions, its good for some laughs. Shrigley (What the Hell Are You Doing?) is a British fine artist whose work resembles comics usually found taped to refrigerators. Here he tackles such diverse human predicaments as alcoholism (It is terrific fun of course, but there are problems with it), boxing (Kill him), and self-help books (Its hard to tell the good advice from the bad advice. You must guess). Shrigleys primitive, scratchy illustrations and scrawled lettering give the book a homey feel, as if it were his private notebook. A few of the short pieces are laugh-out-loud funny in their dry, acerbic British wit, and readers will be swept away by Shrigleys stream-of-consciousness Zen koans, accompanied by bleak, bare-bones illustration. The humor works best when taken in small doses, but the short texts and doodled art make it difficult not to read the book in a single sitting. (Sept.) Review I have no idea how to describe this book. Maybe this is what it feels like to be mad or maybe just human. Shrigley is an immensely talented graphic artist. These are the beautiful, grotesque insides of his head. Alexander Nazaryan, The Atlantic About the Author David Shrigley has worked as a sculptor, photographer, cartoonist, author, and illustrator, and has shown work in Londons Tate Gallery and in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has directed animated music videos for such artists as Blur and Bonnie Prince Billy. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.