ART & BEAUTY HC DRAWINGS BY R CRUMB (MR)

Art & Beauty HC Drawings by R Crumb collects Crumb's Art & Beauty Magazine material across three issues in one volume. R. Crumb—a towering figure in underground comix—offers a satirical lens on aesthetics and public conventions around the female image. The book pairs his stark black‑and‑white drawings of women, from lascivious to modest or athletic, with quotes from Leonardo da Vinci, George Grosz, Willem de Kooning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harvey Kurtzman. Crumb mines personal obsessions and reimagines art history, challenging beauty norms and propriety while grounding the erotically charged images in frequently ironic, philosophical prose. Chronologically arranged from the 1990s to 2016, the compilation includes an introduction by Paul Morris that contextualizes Crumb’s career. This hardcover edition gathers the complete series in one volume, offering both visual daring and provocative ideas about art, sexuality, and society.

Who might be interested in reading?

• Fans of underground comix and R. Crumb's uncompromising drawing style.
• Readers who enjoy art-history references, philosophical prose, and provocative satire.
• Anyone curious about how sexuality and aesthetics are examined within graphic storytelling.
• Fans of stark black-and-white visuals and collected editions that survey an artist's evolving ideas.