4/25/2023 0 Comments Robeet crumbIt was not something I could stop myself from feeling. The sight of a woman with a large ass and strong legs instantly electrified me. “Yes, I’m guilty of looking at women as ‘sex objects’, I’ve done it thousands of times over the course of my life. “I’m sure I must’ve used the term ironically, a sort of self-accusation,” he ponders. ![]() When asked to elaborate, Crumb doesn’t recall drawing it. Another has a woman with the words “Sex Object” floating above her head. There are drawings of acrobatic women with Kardashian-sized rear ends, sleazy businessmen smiling behind cigars and one sketch of a rabbit man slapping a woman across the face. This exhibition, curated by Robert Storr, focuses on Crumb’s sketchbooks from the 1970s. Photograph: Kerry McFate/Courtesy the artist, Paul Morris and David Zwirner “We have a kind of ‘open marriage’, bohemian artists and libertines that we are.” “There are a lot of drawings in this show of other women I’ve been involved with intimately, both before and during my relationship with Aline,” said Crumb. While pointing out the pretty portraits of his wife, Crumb reveals his other lovers, too. But not everything has changed since the Summer of Love. He’s referring to Aline Kominsky-Crumb, his wife of 41 years, a cartoonist in her own right and collaborator. Success and the love of real women helped me a lot. “Fortunately for me, I found a way to express this inner turbulence in my comics, otherwise I might’ve ended up in jail or in a mental institution. “When I was young, I was just obsessed with sexual desire, fantasizing about sex, masturbation, trying to figure out how to get laid. It’s a marked difference from a time when his work was typified by thick-thighed pin-up women and even in his 2016 series Art & Beauty, he featured a bathroom mirror selfie of a 21-year-old model who voluntarily emailed him nudes. ![]() ![]() It helps that I’m now 75 years old and am no longer a slave to a raging libido.” “I try not to even think about women any more. “I don’t even look at women any more,” said Crumb in New York. Perhaps it was the result of the #MeToo movement? The Philadelphia-born artist was a key figure in the counterculture movement in San Francisco during the sexual revolution and has now decided to stop showcasing the female form. Showcasing old comic books from the 1960s to sketchbooks, a cartoon about Donald Trump and a portrait of Stormy Daniels, it traces Crumb’s path as pervert in chief – which marks the end of an era. Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction & Pulp Fact by the Illustrious R Crumb is his latest exhibition, which runs until 19 April at David Zwirner gallery in New York.
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