Doodaaa, A Triography

"Ralph Steadman, the creator of his own inimitable visions of Freud and Leonardo, Alice and Animal Farm, and the Great Gonzo, now offers the world's first triography - a life of his artistic alter ego, the redoubtable Gavin Twinge, as told to Ralphael Steed. Twinge, last remnant of a nineteenth-century 'domestic engineering' dynasty, founder of the Doodaaa school, and pioneer of Barcode Art, Shredded Literature and Aerial Abstracts, is the original angry voice of contemporary art." From the moment Steed first meets Twinge in a London bookshop, it becomes his quest to get to the heart of the mystery and discover what makes Twinge tick and how, after Duchamp and the school of Dada, art lost its soul. Whether he has to penetrate the south of France by London taxi, where Gavin finds inspiration with his fellow Doodaaaists - among them Aaron Dickley (Primal Scream Environmentalist), Maurice de Rim (Wheelist), Lily Potsdam (Whiplash Muralist) and Schlemiel Weiss (Organic Watercolourist) - or witness the creation of the first Aerial Abstract as Gavin plummets from the skies over Margate in a hired Cessna, Steed sticks by his man, matching him drink for drink, as he prepares for the great exhibition that will crown his life's work.