A Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L’Oeuvre bizarre de Barry Humphries ISBN: 9780773571624 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Humphries Barry -- Criticism and interpretation;
Best known to his fans for the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage, the Australian actor and comedian Barry Humphries is also a painter, composer, and critically acclaimed author. Taking outrageousness to new heights by borrowing from the British Music Hall tradition and the Dada art movement, this brilliant jester of the absurd has made millions laugh by casting stones at everyone and everything, from the Queen of England to Dame Edna's own purple bouffant wig.