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Glen Baxter: Flowers.(Critical Essay)
Artforum International, October, 2005 by Wilson, Michael
> In his most recent novel Millennium People (2003), J. G. Ballard imagines a middle-class insurrection in which the most comfortable members of contemporary London society attempt to destroy the very system they were responsible for creating, transforming their tasteful effects into tools of civil disobedience: "Banners hung from dozens of balconies, sheets of best Egyptian cotton from Peter Jones, gladly sacrificed for the revolution." Should British cartoonist Glen Baxter ever leave behind the alternative past he prefers to inhabit, Ballard's alternative present might ...
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