Reflections: Andrew Logan in Conversation with Andrew Lambirth

by Andrew Lambirth

 , Told in his own words, in response to questions from the writer and art critic Andrew Lambirth, this book chronicles Andrew Logan’s life and work through expressive anecdote and factual recollection. Reflections is a look back, but also a look at the present and a look it is about the meaning of Andrew’s world and the sculpture he has made to fill it, and about his approach to art, to friendship and to living in London and Wales. The Alternative Miss World, founded by Andrew in 1972, is at the heart of his philosophy, not just the world’s greatest drag act (though it is this too), but an exhilarating celebration of the transformative power of the imagination. Andrew’s work, which is all about joy and beauty, is inspiring and uplifting. This book, based upon discursive interviews dealing with all periods of his career, explains and contextualises it fully for the first time.,

368 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2022

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 4 out of 5]

For those who have an interest in the life and work of the flamboyantly creative British artist Andrew Logan, this book of photographs and exchanges with Andrew Lambirth will be a treasure trove. I met the former Andrew at a book signing for this volume a few months ago at Hatchards in Piccadilly in London. Andrew is a charming and delightful bon vivant, and as I am not an art critic I will not break ranks now, but suffice to say if you like color and grand scale, then Logan's work will doubtless have at least some appeal. The interviews contain a lot of reminiscences and name-dropping, some predictable given Logan's career and circles of friendship and influence (e.g., Zandra Rhodes, Derek Jarman, David Hockney), others not so obvious, to me at least (e.g., Brian Eno). The most overwhelming impression the book left with me is of a man so much in love with the possibilities of joyous expression that the judgments and negativities of others seem not so much troubling as sadly irrelevant. Why carp when you can celebrate?