Ye Olde Time Booke of Conundrums, Riddles, and Puzzles, Illustrated

Mug & Mali have combed the ancient tomes and come up with Ye Olde Time Booke of Conundrums, Riddles, and Puzzles. Like other wonderful books in their series, they garnished these timeworn enigmas with lavish illustrations, many of which are worthy of the name Dada. Other books in Mug & Mali's Classics Illustrated series include: Finnegans Wake, The Importance of Being Earnest, Works of Edgar Allen Poe, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Aesop's Fables, The Brothers' Grimm Fairy Tales, The...
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Mug & Mali have combed the ancient tomes and come up with Ye Olde Time Booke of Conundrums, Riddles, and Puzzles. Like other wonderful books in their series, they garnished these timeworn enigmas with lavish illustrations, many of which are worthy of the name Dada. Other books in Mug & Mali's Classics Illustrated series include: Finnegans Wake, The Importance of Being Earnest, Works of Edgar Allen Poe, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Aesop's Fables, The Brothers' Grimm Fairy Tales, The Devil's Dictionary, Right Ho Jeeves, and Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno. If you like your books sophomoric with a high picture-to-text ratio (if you know what we mean), then get this miscellaneous hodge-podge. It's a real piece of work that will keep you up nights reading and drinking. Enjoy! Here's what other Dadaists and Surrealists are saying about the New Century Dada Press Ye Olde Time Booke of Conundrums, Riddles, and Puzzles, Illustrated:"Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself." - Marcel Duchamp. "Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography." - Tristan Tzara, Manifesti del dadaismo. "The art of Mug and Mali is a ribbon around a bomb." - Andre Breton. "Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people." - Tristan Tzara, The Dada Manifestos & Lampisteries. "Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories." - Marcel Duchamp. "...in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles." - Tristan Tzara. "The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time." - Luis Bunuel. "... bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion." - Marcel Duchamp. "I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor." - Man Ray. "If Mug and Mali aren't America's leading humorists, I can see why." - Marcel Duchump. "I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim." - Frida Kahlo. "This is the best book I ever read." - Abraham Lincoln. "I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty." - Marcel Duchamp. "...art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst..." - Marcel Duchamp. "So many pictures, so little art." - Amelia Barfup. "I don't understand the flow of the story." - Salvadore's Deli. "All critics should be assassinated." - Man Ray. "This book looks like I need a drink." - Luis Bunuel. "I can't imagine how they will make it into a video game." - Curt Reply. "Dada is a state of mind. - Andre Breton. "Art is dead. Long live Dada." - Walter Serner.