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Through adaptation, autobiography, biography, and short fiction, Crumb-much like his subjects-demands we pay attention to our darkest desires, compulsions, fears, and obsessions. \u003ci\u003eExistential Comics\u003c\/i\u003e will also feature a new, introductory comic strip by Crumb, reflecting on his practice in the context of this volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor Dan Nadel's essay further weaves together Crumb's life, career, and influences, delving into the creative environment that informed some of the artist's most outstanding comics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288729141484,"sku":"9781644231531","price":79.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11219643482773.jpg?v=1770570808"},{"product_id":"art-beauty-by-r-crumb-9798875000720","title":"Art \u0026 Beauty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wonderful window into Crumb's world of bodies and ideas, art and beauty.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a satirical take on aesthetics and a continued exploration of Crumb’s subversion of sexuality and mainstream values. Drawings of women in positions ranging from lascivious to modest or mid-sport are accompanied by quotations from artists like Leonardo da Vinci, George Grosz, William de Kooning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harvey Kurtzman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMining his own obsessions and fantasies, Crumb reimagines the history of art, challenging notions of beauty, along with society's mores and expectations of propriety around the female form. The images appeal to a mostly erotic sensibility, which in turn is undercut by the inclusion of sometimes ironic and frequently philosophical prose. The images drag philosophy back down to earth, while the writing challenges the pure eroticism of Crumb's drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresenting all three issues of the series in one book, \u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is arranged chronologically, from the earliest images in the 1990s to drawings completed in 2016. 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It was then that Ralph Bakshi turned the strips into an X-rated animated film that Crumb hated so much, he famously killed off the character and never returned to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Life and Death of Fritz the Cat\u003c\/em\u003e contains all the Fritz stories from the earliest sketchbook-drawn tales (\u003cem\u003eHey, Ol' Cat!\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFritz Comes On Strong\u003c\/em\u003e) to the wild adventure stories (\u003cem\u003eSpecial Agent for the C.I.A.\u003c\/em\u003e) to the classic 'peak' Fritz stories (\u003cem\u003eFritz the No-Good\u003c\/em\u003e). 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It includes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComplementing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDocumenting the critically acclaimed exhibition \u003ci\u003eDrawing for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction \u0026amp; Pulp Fact\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596072927468,"sku":"9781644230435","price":85.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781644230435-crumb-s-world.jpg?v=1777915516"},{"product_id":"the-sweeter-side-of-r-crumb-by-r-crumb-9780393333718","title":"The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCute little kittens, angels, and babies? Flowers, ice cream cones, and German boy bands? Coming from, supposedly, the creepiest and most pessimistic artist of his generation?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYes indeed, there is a \u003cem\u003esweeter side\u003c\/em\u003e to R. Crumb. 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