9780393061024
The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
R. Crumb
ISBN 13: 9780393061024
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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Four years in the making, a graphic translation of the first book of the Bible uses actual word-for-word text as a basis for its dramatic presentations and includes intricately detailed depictions of the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah's ark, and more.
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"R. Crumb, one of the 20th century's most subversive artists, takes a serious look at the world's most famous book...."
Kirkus, 07/01/2009
Review:"[A] comic as unsettlingly drenched in sexualized violence as TALES FROM THE CRYPT and as subversively disrespectful to cultural icons as MAD....[T]he artist embraces a volatile, often abrasive text soaked through with lust and blood."
Jeet Heer, Bookforum, 09/01/2009
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Book Description: 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 224mm x 23mm x 279mm. Hardcover. Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Origina.Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 224 pages. 0.998. Bookseller Inventory # 9780393061024 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: WW Norton Co, United States, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 284 x 223 mm. Brand New Book. Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that we would do a take off of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible's language, "a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions," that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible. Now, readers of every persuasion--Crumb fans, comic book lovers, and believers--can gain astonishing new insights from these harrowing, tragic, and even juicy stories. Crumb's Book of Genesis reintroduces us to the bountiful tree lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire that rained from the heavens, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh, where Joseph's embalmed body is carried in a coffin, in a scene as elegiac as any in Genesis. Using clues from the text and peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretation that have often obscured the Bible's most dramatic stories, Crumb fleshes out a parade of Biblical originals: from the serpent in Eden, the humanoid reptile appearing like an alien out of a science fiction movie, to Jacob, a "kind've depressed guy who doesn't strike you as physically courageous," and his bother, Esau, "a rough and kick ass guy," to Abraham's wife Sarah, more fetching than most woman at 90, to God himself, "a standard Charlton Heston-like figure with long white hair and a flowing beard." As Crumb writes in his introduction, "the stories of these people, the Hebrews, were something more than just stories. They were the foundation, the source, in writing of religious and political power, handed down by God himself." Crumb's Book of Genesis, the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses. Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: Best Adaptation from Another Work, Best Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist. Bookseller Inventory # AAS9780393061024 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. "From the Creation to the death of Joseph, here is the Book of Genesis, revealingly illustrated as never before. R. Crumb uses the actual text word for word.". Bookseller Inventory # 9780393061024 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Brand new hardcover book! ; Far removed from the satirical reimagining some might expect from the father of underground comix, Crumb's long-awaited take on the first book of the Bible presents the artist's own sensitive, visually intense reflections. Where most visual adaptations edit down their prose sources, Crumb has, strikingly, included every word of the Book of Genesis within his first major book-length work. His humanistic visual response to this religious text imbues even briefly mentioned biblical characters with unique faces and attitudes, and his renderings of the book's more storied personalities draw out momentous emotions inspired by the book's inherent drama. Throughout, Genesis is a virtual portfolio of Crumb's career-long effort to instill fluid cartoon drawing with carefully rendered lifelike detail. Some might miss Crumb's full stylistic and tonal range, but the source's narrative sweep includes moments of sex and scandal that recall the artist's more notorious comics. Indeed, this monumental visual adaptation's basic strategy may subvert simply by demanding a reconsideration of its source, one that continues to motivate the complex cultural struggles that have, for decades, preoccupied this master cartoonist's landmark work. (Oct. ) Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ; 1 x 11.2 x 8.8 Inches; 224 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 49984 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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