By R. Crumb
The trendy paintings Museum of town of Paris (Musée d'art moderne de l. a. ville de Paris) provides a foremost retrospective exhibition on one of many maximum illustrators of the prior fifty years: Robert Crumb.
A designated examine the existence and paintings of underground comix pioneer R. Crumb, who represents a legendary determine in American counter-culture.
In 2012 Crumb had his first accomplished museum retrospective on the Musée d'Art moderne de l. a. Ville de Paris. Created to accompany the convey, this hefty quantity spans nearly fifty years of Crumb's profession, and comprises over seven-hundred drawings and greater than two hundred comix magazines and covers, plus one other 2 hundred previousuly unpublished or unseen colour illustrations. Context is equipped via texts from Jean-Luc Fromental, Sébastien Gokalp, Fabrice Hergott, Todd Hignite, Jean-Pierre Mercier and Joann Sfar.
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