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Evolution of a Crazy Artist
W. W. Norton & Company
November 2010
On Sale: November 5, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 0393079961
EAN: 9780393079968
Hardcover
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A groundbreaking work of striking originality that charts a
young artist's life through her own drawings-from
toddlerhood to motherhood. Sophie Crumb's startlingly
expressive drawings track her development as an artist from
age two to twenty-eight. 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. 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. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a
dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of
personality as seen through art. Four-color illustrations
throughout
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