They're selling postcards of the hanging<br> They're painting the passports brown<br> The beauty parlor is filled with sailors<br> The circus is in town.<br> Bob Dylan, from "Desolation Row"<br> <em>The Superhuman Crew</em> brings together two visionary works of artJames Ensor's masterpiece painting <em>Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889</em> and Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row." The result is a riveting visual and verbal experience.<br> Ensor's huge, vibrant, and startling canvas presents a scene filled with clowns, masked figures, andbarely visible amid the swirling crowdsthe tiny figure of Christ on a donkey entering the city of Brussels. "Desolation Row," from Dylan's classic 1965 album <em>Highway 61 Revisited</em>, presents its own surreal portrait of modern life in strangely similar terms. These two vast works share a vision of the contemporary world as anarchic, grotesque, and absurd, and <em>The Superhuman Crew</em> combines them in a surprising, thought-provoking format. This book includes a complete reproduction and numerous details of Ensor's painting, the full text of Dylan's lyrics to "Desolation Row," and a compact disc with his recording of the song.