Bizarre

by Barry Humphries

Collection of strange, bizarre photographs from Barry Humphries.

Genres: Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published December 12, 1988

About the author

John Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's. He was a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter.

Reviews

[Walter Five · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anarchy and Erotica with material taken from the French "Bizarre" magazine published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert and numerous other sources. This is one of those books that permanently warped me from a relatively young age, and your world may never be the same after reading it, even in the sexually jaded 21st Century. I first found this book in a remainder pile at a book seller's in the local Mall for $1.00, at the tender age of 13 in 1974. It introduced me to "mondo", to copraphagia, urine-drinkers, anarchy, Sacher-Masoch, De Sade, underground sex culture, human deformities & sexual fetish, anarchy, Dada and a wide variety of other mind-blowing topics. Heavily illustrated, many photographs and cartoons. My British friends will know Barry Humphries as Dame Edna; this is Mr. Humphries as an editor the strange and mondo long before that character was invented.

[Patrick Faulkner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wild, weird, wonderful, whacky. Barry Humphries shows another side to Dame Edna. His love of kitsch is well known, but he would be equally at home in late 19th century decandent Paris, drinking absinthe with Huysmans or Oscar Wilde. This is an encyclopaedia of decadence I bought as a teenager, and I've never looked back since then. If you like spanking nuns,or want to mutilate the Mona Lisa, then this is the book for you. Warning: contains nuts.

[flannery · Rating 4 out of 5]

N8217 .G8 H928b : Includes a cool drawing of nuns making out