Imagine Observe Remember

by Peter Blegvad

Imagine Observe Remember

Genres: Art

252 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2020

About the author

Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums. He is the son of Lenore and Erik Blegvad, who are respectively, a children's book author and illustrator.

From 1992 to 1999, The Independent ran Blegvad's strangely surreal, comic strip, Leviathan, which received much critical praise for blending some of the most interesting elements of Krazy Kat with a coming-of-age-esque story akin to Calvin and Hobbes. Some of the strips have been collected in the 2001 volume The Book of Leviathan . Other comics and illustrations by Blegvad have appeared in The Ganzfeld and Ben Katchor's Picture Story 2 .

Reviews

[elise anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most interesting books I've read in years... partly because it hovers at the intersections of visual art, spirituality, philosophy, and imagination (filled with really lovely drawings that illustrate various discoveries), and partly because the writing remains remarkably lucid---even while dissecting some pretty abstract, complicated concepts about how the mind and its processes of representation might work. Reminds me a bit of Marion Milner's A Life of One's Own in its scientific approach to something so human and mystical. It's very clear that Blegvad has not been making art solely to decorate the walls all this time; he's trying to discover how the universe works by examining his own consciousness as it appears on paper.

[Sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peter Blegvad is a fucking genius.

[Enric · Rating 5 out of 5]

Greatest artistic research approach I have read so far.