{"product_id":"r-crumbs-dream-diary","title":"R. Crumb's Dream Diary","description":"Product Description  An unprecedented insight into the untamed art and psyche of R. Crumb.  For more than forty years, legendary American artist Robert Crumb has documented his nightly dreams in a meticulously kept private journal. This material has stood as a guarded secret in a career defined by an impish compulsion to publically selfdisclose. All of the artist’s well-documented preoccupations are present and accounted for – rampant egomania, insatiable lust, profound self-disgust, the sad beauty of old America, the moral bankruptcy of new America and the fool’s errand quest for spiritual enlightenment – but here they are entirely untamed, springing forth from forces beyond even his control.  Published for the first time, the complete Dream Diaries offer readers a deep, dark look under the hood of one of America’s most aggressively dynamic comedic voices.  Review  [R.Crumb's Dream Diary] is both familiar and surprising, pleasurable and enlightening. It strikes and maintains the difficult balance between thrill and intimacy.--Lily Majteles \"Brooklyn Rail\"  [R.Crumb's] black-and-white work is bawdy, often X-rated, and drawn with a cross-hatched precision that feels closer to a museum-caliber etching than the coloring-book wonders of old comics. But they're really not so far off: [...] Readers will discover how a cartoonist's imagination has always grown from the same place of surreal, anxious wonderment and escapist reflection.-- \"Rain Taxi\"","brand":"Distributed Art Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40806850330709,"sku":"9781942884330N","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/12f02110-fe58-4b5b-9237-983c7020e587.jpg?v=1711797005","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/r-crumbs-dream-diary","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}