Reviews
Art & Beauty "is a mix of highbrow musings on beauty teamed with Crumb's own typically lurid artwork.", Crumb's talent for crosshatching complements his thick ink outlines, which round away the photorealism of his sources, lending them a simplified, exaggerated form., [Crumb] continues to draw [women] prolifically and passionately... Crumb's portrayals of women in 2016 are still deeply divisive, but they also interact in an intriguing new way with the current discourse on beauty., Complex and contradictory - obsessional and voyeuristic, yet oddly sweet... In other words, it's a fascinating, nuanced, multi-faceted body of work - and a testament to one of the world's most unique artists at the height of his powers., Crumb is one of the great treasures of illustration. Cumb's drawings in this book not only show why women are beautiful, but why life is beautiful... I'm glad this book exists. I'm glad it is mine., Art & Beauty is a "fascinating, nuanced, multifaceted body of work - and a testament to one of the world's most unique artists at the height of his powers.", The drawings in Art and Beauty Magazine are classic Crumb renditions: full-figured women, clothed and nude, rendered in bold lines and detailed crosshatching that vividly delineate their forms.
