R. Crumb: De l\underground à la Genèse
Texts by Jean-Luc Fromental, Sébastien Gokalp, Fabrice Hergott, Todd Hignite, Jean-Pierre Mercier and Joann Sfar
Published on the occasion of the artist’s first comprehensive museum retrospective at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2012, R. Crumb: De l’underground à la Genèse covers nearly fifty years of his work and brings together more than 700 drawings and 200 underground magazines and covers. This bilingual exhibition catalogue (English and French), whose book cover unfolds into a poster, features 220 color illustrations of previously unpublished or rarely seen works. Also included are texts by Jean-Luc Fromental, Sébastien Gokalp, Fabrice Hergott, Todd Hignite, Jean-Pierre Mercier and Joann Sfar. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, it is destined to become a collector’s item.
Publisher: Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Artists: R. Crumb
Contributors: Jean-Luc Fromental, Sébastien Gokalp, Fabrice Hergott, Todd Hignite, Jean-Pierre Mercier, Joann Sfar
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9782759601929
Retail: $60
Status: Available
R. Crumb
Born in Philadelphia in 1943, R. Crumb has used the popular medium of the comic book to address the absurdity of social conventions, political disillusionment, irony, racial and gender stereotypes, sexual fantasies, and fetishes. Inspired by Thomas Nast, Honoré Daumier, T.S. Sullivant, and James Gillray, amongst others, his drawings offer a satirical critique of modern consumer culture and seem to possess an outsider’s perspective—a self-conscious stance, which Crumb often relates to his personal life.
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