![]() ![]() ![]() In doing so, he is not condoning them, but presenting them as a reflection of his environment, his upbringing, and what he sees as the rotten core of America. He belongs to a tradition of artists who synthesize the world through drawing, from Annibale Caracci and Pieter Brueghel to Carroll Dunham, Peter Saul, Mike Kelly and Nicole Eisenman. A persistent chronicler, Crumb spent decades drawing and writing in journals, no thought, no matter how crude, left unexposed. Utilizing pen and ink in a crosshatching style born of fascination with 19th century graphic drawing and engraving, Crumb sheds light on the absurdity of social conventions, political disillusionment, racial stereotypes, and his own sexual fantasies and fetishes.Ĭrumb's life has been dedicated to a relentless self-examination, including his biases, his hatred, his love, his kinks. 1943) is the undisputed godfather of underground comics, whose genre defining comic strips of the 60s and 70s ushered in a new age of self-expression in the medium and redefined comics as a countercultural art form. Expanding on the rich history of the use of caricature to examine specific times in politics and society by artists such as Thomas Nast, James Gillray and William Hogarth, Crumb mines every aspect of his personal life to critique modern American society and the myth of the American Dream. ![]() "What could be more interesting in life than exploring this inner realm of the mind?" ![]()
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