I did a drawing for Continuum, but they didn’t like it. Luckily The Observer did.
Article taken from The Observer, Sunday 15 November 2009
Roger Scruton, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute , has published some influential volumes with scholarly imprint Continuum, including The West and the Rest, A Political Philosophy and Sexual Desire, establishing a reputation as a provocative and contrarian thinker. But the publisher evidently wasn’t pleased when the artwork commissioned to publicise the philosopher’s latest work, I Drink Therefore I Am, turned up. Luther Adams’s play on Rodin’s Thinker was rejected on the grounds that “Scruton would be furious” – even though, according to Adams, he was never shown the illustration. “They said it would be different if he had some clothes on,” Adams tells me, “although of course the image wouldn’t make any sense if he did.”
