R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection

by Robert Crumb

Book Overview

Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist, especially since he had been fascinated with record covers-particularly for the legendary jazz, country, and old-time blues music of the 1920s and 1930s-since he was a teen. This early collaboration proved so successful that Crumb...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393082784
• ISBN13: 9780393082784
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.4" x 10.3"