Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life Home and billboards targeted some of

and billboards targeted some of the most sensitive political conflicts of the era

Adam Pendleton draws on visual culture and historical archives to explore the ways in which context influences meaning

With contributions by Géraldine Gourbe

This richly illustrated volume offers the first close look at the artist KAWS’s personal collection—a spectacular trove that includes more than four thousand works by some seven hundred artists

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life Home and billboards targeted some ofRobert Crumb is often credited with single handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the underground comic book industry, and transforming the vernacular language of 20th century America into an instantly recognizable and popular aesthetic. Now, for the first time, Dan Nadel, delivers a gripping and essential account (The Boston Globe) of how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse,