Cake & Prostheses

An inveterate experimenter with image and text and music whose work bears the clear influences of Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism, and absurdism, Gerhard Rühm is truly one of the major figures of the postwar European avant-garde. Yet reprehensibly little of his work has appeared in English. This edition brings together a selection of his early work spanning the past seven decades, displaying a wide thematic range and ingenious combinations of motifs such as music, pornography, banality, humor, and mythology.