R. Crumb
Subtitle: from the underground to Genesis
By: Robert Crumb
Contributors: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris
Edition: English edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781684051090
Subjects: Pictorial American wit and humor; Caricatures and cartoons; Exhibitions; Underground comic books, strips
Other titles: From the underground to Genesis; Robert Crumb
Work titles: R. Crumb
Description: "Robert Crumb is the quintessential underground artist. His masterfully rendered comics and sketchbook drawings spanning nearly five decades, markedly lacking in concession or self-censorship, offer a profound cultural critique filtered through demanding psychological self-reflection. Crumb's art, which pioneered the transformation of comics into an adult literary form, addresses a plethora of personal and political themes within a multidimensional narrative framework. The work starkly depicts sex, violence, and race, among many other subjects, offering revelator insight into the human condition within the snarled jumble of a radically changing America."--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, April 13-August 19, 2012.

Originally published in French: Paris : R. Crumb: de l'underground à la Genèse, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Fabrice Hergott; title: Hanging out with Robert Crumb  -- Joann Sfar; title: Dense line  -- Sébastian Gokalp; title: The old switcheroo: R. Crumb and the underground aesthetic  -- Todd Hignite; title: "Lines on paper"  -- Jean-Pierre Mercier; title: Paradise found  -- Jean-Luc Fromental; title: Timeline --; title: Crumb before Crumb (1943-1966) --; title: Underground (1967-1979) --; title: Weird America (1980-2009) --; title: Crumb by Crumb (1968-2012) --; title: Crumb in France (1991-2012).