One of today’s most celebrated illustrators, Crumb helped define the cartoon and ‘Summer of Love’ subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s with comic strips like Fritz the Cat, Mr. This is his first solo exhibition in Britain following his 2005 presentation at Whitechapel Gallery.
Initially published in 1996, the artist recently completed the highly anticipated third volume in the series, and the show marks the largest presentation of the project to date. The exhibition Features drawings from his Art & Beautymagazines. Love him or loath him, this highly controversial artist is a man of his era and once summed up the attitudes of the Hippy counterculture, in all of its glory. Crumb’s inaugural exhibition at the David Zwirner gallery in London is a highly anticipated event. I wonder how long that's going to take.R. I wonder how soon it's going to be before the general run of the supporters of Trump start to feel betrayed. If you want to galvanize the population behind your political cause you've got to speak simply to them, you've got to keep it black and white and you've got to have an enemy that's very obvious, that you can point to. They just feel someone's going to take care of the problems that are just too complicated for them.Ĭrumb: Yeah, that's right. A no nonsense kind of guy, who's just gonna take charge, because it simplifies their world. "We're gonna get this straightened out and kick out all the parasites and lock some people up, etc."Īlex: Some eggs are gonna be broken when you make an omelet, you know? And that's just the way it is, and he's gotta take charge. You can be a very educated person but a very pro-authoritarian person and you're really going to be sympathetic to Trump.Ĭrumb: "We're going to take care of this." Yeah.
Yep.Īlex: And the weird thing is, it doesn't have that much to do with education. They just want a big, strong chief who will take care of everything, lead them into battle and provide the big feast afterward and parcel out the spoils. They reaped what they sowed, the Democratic Party operatives, when they fixed it so Bernie would lose the primary votes in New York and California.Īlex: Also, a lot of people are just biologically wired to be really taken in by authoritarian people.Ĭrumb: That's true, you're right. The Democrats made sure he didn't get nominated. You see that's what happens when you get a politician who actually tells the truth- nope, can't have him. On the other hand, Bernie Sanders who was out actually speaking some truth – I thought he was great. How could anybody just looking at him and watching his behavior think for one second that he's anything but a sociopath!? I just couldn't imagine how anyone could think he's a viable candidate for the presidency. In the latest installment of "Crumb on Others," Alexander Wood asks Crumb about Castro, Lenin, and Trump.Ĭrumb: Yeah, but I would watch him and find him so offensive, so obnoxious and hateful. It's always interesting to hear what Robert Crumb has to say about notable people, alive and dead.
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