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Crumb's World (Hardcover): R. Crumb, Robert Storr Crumb's World (Hardcover)
R. Crumb, Robert Storr
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Instrumental in the formation of the underground comics scene in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s, Crumb has ruptured and expanded the boundaries of the graphic arts, redefining comics and cartoons as countercultural art forms. Presenting a slice of Crumb's unique universe, this book features a wide array of printed matter culled from the artist's five-decade career-tear sheets of drawings and comics taken directly from the publications where the works first appeared, magazine and album covers, broadsides from the 1960s and 1970s, tabloids from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, Oakland, Manhattan's Lower East Side, and other counterculture enclaves, as well as exhibition ephemera. Complementing this volume are historical works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that have inspired Crumb and pages from his rarely seen sketchbooks from the 1970s and 1980s that reveal his exemplary skill as a draftsman. Documenting the critically acclaimed exhibition Drawing for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction & Pulp Fact by the Illustrious R. Crumb at David Zwirner, New York, in 2019, curated by Robert Storr, this publication offers an opportunity to immerse oneself in Crumb's singular mind. In the accompanying text, Storr explores the challenging nature of some of Crumb's work and the importance of artists who take on the status quo.

The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (Hardcover): R. Crumb The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (Hardcover)
R. Crumb
R967 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R145 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that we would do a take off of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible's language, "a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions," that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible. Now, readers of every persuasion-Crumb fans, comic book lovers, and believers-can gain astonishing new insights from these harrowing, tragic, and even juicy stories. Crumb's Book of Genesis reintroduces us to the bountiful tree lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire that rained from the heavens, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh, where Joseph's embalmed body is carried in a coffin, in a scene as elegiac as any in Genesis. Using clues from the text and peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretation that have often obscured the Bible's most dramatic stories, Crumb fleshes out a parade of Biblical originals: from the serpent in Eden, the humanoid reptile appearing like an alien out of a science fiction movie, to Jacob, a "kind've depressed guy who doesn't strike you as physically courageous," and his bother, Esau, "a rough and kick ass guy," to Abraham's wife Sarah, more fetching than most woman at 90, to God himself, "a standard Charlton Heston-like figure with long white hair and a flowing beard." As Crumb writes in his introduction, "the stories of these people, the Hebrews, were something more than just stories. They were the foundation, the source, in writing of religious and political power, handed down by God himself." Crumb's Book of Genesis, the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses. Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: Best Adaptation from Another Work, Best Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist.

Scab Vendor - Confessions of a Tattoo Artist (Hardcover): Jonathan Shaw Scab Vendor - Confessions of a Tattoo Artist (Hardcover)
Jonathan Shaw; Contributions by R. Crumb
R980 R824 Discovery Miles 8 240 Save R156 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Drawn Together (Hardcover, UK ed.): Robert R Crumb, Aline Crumb Drawn Together (Hardcover, UK ed.)
Robert R Crumb, Aline Crumb
R749 R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Save R121 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In this account of the joys and challenges of a legendary marriage, this celebrated cartooning couple recall their success at shocking America with 'Weirdo' magazine, the life-altering birth of their precocious daughter Sophie, and their astonishing move to the safe haven of France.

Scab Vendor - Confessions of a Tattoo Artist (Paperback): Jonathan Shaw Scab Vendor - Confessions of a Tattoo Artist (Paperback)
Jonathan Shaw; Contributions by R. Crumb
R670 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R88 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
R. Crumb - The Complete Record Cover Collection (Hardcover, New): R. Crumb R. Crumb - The Complete Record Cover Collection (Hardcover, New)
R. Crumb 1
R760 R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Save R104 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist, especially since he had been fascinated with record covers-particularly for the legendary jazz, country, and old-time blues music of the 1920s and 1930s-since he was a teen. This early collaboration proved so successful that Crumb went on to draw hundreds of record covers for both new artists and largely forgotten masters. So remarkable were Crumb's artistic interpretations of these old 78 rpm singles that the art itself proved influential in their rediscovery in the 1960s and 1970s. Including such classics as Truckin' My Blues Away, Harmonica Blues, and Please Warm My Weiner, Crumb's opus also features more recent covers done for CDs. R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection is a must-have for any lover of graphics and old-time music.

Sophie Crumb - Evolution of a Crazy Artist (Hardcover): Sophie Crumb Sophie Crumb - Evolution of a Crazy Artist (Hardcover)
Sophie Crumb; Edited by A Crumb, R. Crumb
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sophie Crumb's startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. Sifting through dozens of their daughter's remarkable sketchbooks, our generation's most celebrated graphic artists have, with their only child, Sophie, now selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological maturation. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie's earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York's "seventh circle of hell." The drawings from her early twenties of tattoo artists, dangerous men reflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art."

Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me - The R. Crumb Letters 1958 - 1977 (Paperback, New): R. Crumb Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me - The R. Crumb Letters 1958 - 1977 (Paperback, New)
R. Crumb
R543 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R50 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

I feel that my work is but a feeble expression of something that in itself is vague and doubtful Sometimes when I probe myself I find that my intentions in art aren't as sincere as they should be I realize that I m fairly good at drawing, but you see that s only because I've done so much of it, and it seems sometimes that the only reason I have stuck at it so diligently is because I have to sort of get even with society for not accepting me Subconsciously I want to make myself immortal among men, leave my mark on the earth to compensate for social inadequacy So I draw. R. Crumb, 9/29/61

Spanning the most formative era of his life, from the painful years of adolescence to the fame and fortune of early adulthood, this collection of personal correspondences with two near-lifelong friends sheds light on the artistic development, bitter struggle, and ultimate triumph of the world s greatest living cartoonist.Crumb writes about many key events in his life: the dissolution of his first marriage, the pain of being separated from his first child, his troubles with the IRS, and his obsessions with comics, music and women, most notably his earliest experiences with Aline Kominsky-Crumb, now his wife of over 30 years. An entertaining and revealing look into the mind of a great artist and thinker; this is Crumb s sketchbook of words, featuring scores of rare art, including entire letters drawn in cartoon form."

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