Jeff Keen: the unsettling surrealist of Sussex-by-the-sea
Celebrating an uncategorizable genius
This month marks the centenary of the most subversive artist you’ve never encountered.
Jeff Keen (1923-2012) is a byword for unsettling, hilarious and unforgettable multimedia art. Everything was grist to his radical mill: B-movie posters, pulp comics, cheap toy and tawdry costumes. He took the brutality and cacophony of the atomic age and filtered it through an imagination powered by rock n roll, jazz and surrealism.
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