{"product_id":"robert-crumb-sketchbook-vol-4-1982-1989-hardcover","title":"Robert Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 4. 1982-1989 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first three volumes of this series were met with fervent acclaim from our readers, most of whom have been lying in wait for an \u003cstrong\u003eaffordable trade edition since the $ 1,000 boxed sets appeared\u003c\/strong\u003e. They laud these 440-page editions for their quality hardcover, elegant matte paper, and impeccable reproduction as the best of the best--\u003cstrong\u003ethe perfect tribute to the world's favorite dirty old man\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Expect this book to be no different. Combining volumes 7 and 8 from the first boxed set (confusing, we know), it spans the\u003cstrong\u003e years 1982 to 1989\u003c\/strong\u003e, a period when the artist was comfortably ensconced in rural California, raising his young daughter Sophie, who appears throughout this volume. But Crumb was still Crumb, declaring in one drawing, above a lovingly rendered tree, \"As I get older I get more twisted, convoluted, depraved, cynical, embittered, self-centered, jaded, debauched, ruthless, greedy, conceited, set-in-my-ways, long-winded, absent-minded, prejudiced, closed-minded, misanthropic, nervous...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To prove this self-flagellating analysis he fills the pages with his \u003cstrong\u003esignature perversions\u003c\/strong\u003e (in country settings), \u003cstrong\u003escathing social commentary\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ecruel self-portraits\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eexperimental cubism\u003c\/strong\u003e... and some \u003cstrong\u003elovely sylvan landscape\u003c\/strong\u003e. His mastery of the Rapidograph pen is at its zenith here in his 40s; we only wish he'd chosen to include his prescient comic of Donald Trump from 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48688221454553,"sku":"9783836566964","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/3121\/5065\/files\/9783836566964.jpg?v=1778537643","url":"https:\/\/www.blacknectarbooks.com\/products\/robert-crumb-sketchbook-vol-4-1982-1989-hardcover","provider":"blacknectar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}