R.Crumb Coffee Table Art Book: Crumb's Whole Career, from Shack to Chateau - Hardcover

Peter Poplaski (ed.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747537747 ISBN 13: 9780747537748

Publisher: Bloomsbury, 1997

Synopsis

When published in hardcover last year, The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book was hailed as an original and audacious celebration of artistic genius and American popular culture. This paperback edition makes the best of R. Crumb available in a price that fans of comic book art are sure to appreciate.

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Review:

Robert Crumb, world-famous illustrator and self-confessed pervert, got his start in the underground comics scene of the late sixties and early seventies. The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book is a collection of his best work from the last 50 years (it's got some of his juvenilia too, which is pretty fascinating stuff). The volume is a welcome reminder that, screwed up as Crumb may be, he's also a tremendously talented, utterly original artist. He artistically embodies a particular part of the sixties, and as that fades even further into history, Crumb's material becomes more important. Is The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book funny? Yes, certainly, in a coarse, Rabelaisian way; you'll either find it a hoot, or horribly racist and sexist. And it's not for the kiddies, obviously. But R. Crumb is so well known by now, that you probably know which group you fall into, the lovers or the haters. The lovers will find this book a wonderful treat.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0747537747
• ISBN 13: 9780747537748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Illustrator: R. Crumb