Comics of R. Crumb - Underground in the Art Museum

A groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophisticated and complex in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and history, and chart his role in underground comix and the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.

About the author

Daniel Worden is associate professor of art at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is author of Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z and Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism and editor of The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, published by University Press of Mississippi. His work on comics, literature, and other media has appeared in American Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications.

Summary

A groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophisticated and complex in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and history, and chart his role in underground comix and the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Worden
• Assisted by: Daniel Worden (Editor)
• Publisher: University of mississippi pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781496833754
• ISBN: 978-1-4968-3375-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies