![]() ![]() She moved San Francisco, intending to pursue her art career. “When I saw what he had done with this autobiographical, straightforward, crazy story about everything that happened to him, I started approaching it in this straightforward way, and it was satisfying. “I saw Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green,” she said in an interview with The Comics Journal in 1990. ![]() It was in Arizona that she began her interest in the underground comic book scene. After graduating from Lawrence High in 1966, she attended the University of Arizona, where she studied painting and married Carl Kominsky two years later. 1, 1948, she spent her first years in Far Rockaway until her family moved to Woodmere. The wife of comix artist Robert Crumb, Kominsky-Crumb, died of pancreatic cancer on Nov. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art.Before she was Aline Kominsky-Crumb, she was Aline Goldsmith, who found love in art by drawing pictures of her classmates in Lawrence High School and then broke ground as a woman in the male-dominated field of comic book writing. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie's earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York's "seventh circle of hell." The drawings from her early twentiesâ "of tattoo artists, dangerous menâ "reflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. Sifting through dozens of their daughter's remarkable sketchbooks, our generation's most celebrated graphic artists have, with their only child, Sophie, now selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological maturation. Sophie Crumb's startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. From the publisher: A groundbreaking work of striking originality that charts a young artist's life through her own drawings-from toddlerhood to motherhood. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover. (Nov.) (c)Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The true legacy of her parents' influence is her constant outpouring of uncensored, self-critical, and perceptive drawing. Later she leaves home to join a circus, study tattooing, and live with lowlifes in New York City. Their presence as media guides is evident in her early subjects (the Three Stooges, vintage cartoons). However, to distance this work from her family background denies part of the reason for her early, sustained development and one of this book's major narrative threads: her relationship to the legacy of her celebrated parents. Sophie's earliest work includes very advanced preschool art, and she remains continuously prolific. The book satisfies somewhat on these counts. In their twin introductions, Sophie's parents (and co-editors) Robert and Aline Kominsky-Crumb position this book as something other than "Crumbsploitation," praising their daughter's artwork and suggesting that this chronological, lifelong sketchbook anthology constitutes a unique and fascinating document of personal and artistic development. Questions about this compilation of childhood and sketchbook drawings are both unavoidable and acknowledged. Sophie Crumb's slender body of published comics so far identifies her as an interesting-but still mostly promising-young cartoonist. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie's earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York's "seventh circle of hell." The drawings from her early twenties―of tattoo artists, dangerous men―reflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. A groundbreaking work of striking originality that charts a young artist's life through her own drawings-from toddlerhood to motherhood. ![]()
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