This first monograph on Hermans gives an extensive survey of his oeuvre with 95 works in colour and two texts in which the process of creation and the force of the images are handled in more depth. With Ovid’s theme ‘disguise, shifting, metamorphosis’ as guide, Rudi Fuchs looks for the artistic element of his strange, inimitable gambolling poetry. In ‘Mind the Gap’ Hermans himself writes of the fascinations which form the basis of his unique language of imagery by evocating the genesis of one of his earliest works. When leafing through this monograph you will literally be swept along by the continual novelty and infectious directness of these images.