Monday, October 19, 2009
Robert Crumb on Genesis
There are several views on this new work of R. Crumb. For example:
1. Mike Judge, of the Christian Institute says. "If you are going to publish your own version of the Bible it must be done with a great deal of sensitivity. The Bible is a very important text to many many people and should be treated with the respect it deserves. Representing it in your own way is all very well and good but it must be remembered that it is a matter of people's faith, their religion".
2. The Jewish Daily says "To say this book is a remarkable volume or even a landmark volume in comic art is somewhat of an understatement. It doesn’t hurt that excerpts of the book appeared during the summer in the New Yorker and that the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is opening an exhibit of the original drawings from which the book’s contents were adapted."
IMO: Most people have read some of the work of Robert Crumb. For example, his "Mr. Natural" rendering is more or less iconic of one era of the United States's somewhat aimless meanderings through modern history. To me, Crumb's work overall reminds of the generally feckless disregard for long term common sense that is still so unfortunately typical of America. Perhaps the book is worth looking at, for those who still like to take a new view on America and on religion. But my feeling was, "I have seen it all before". Muslims may see the book as worthy of a fatwa, though one would possibly have to be somewhat of an 'Uncle Napoleon' to care enough for a fatwa.
1. Mike Judge, of the Christian Institute says. "If you are going to publish your own version of the Bible it must be done with a great deal of sensitivity. The Bible is a very important text to many many people and should be treated with the respect it deserves. Representing it in your own way is all very well and good but it must be remembered that it is a matter of people's faith, their religion".
2. The Jewish Daily says "To say this book is a remarkable volume or even a landmark volume in comic art is somewhat of an understatement. It doesn’t hurt that excerpts of the book appeared during the summer in the New Yorker and that the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is opening an exhibit of the original drawings from which the book’s contents were adapted."
IMO: Most people have read some of the work of Robert Crumb. For example, his "Mr. Natural" rendering is more or less iconic of one era of the United States's somewhat aimless meanderings through modern history. To me, Crumb's work overall reminds of the generally feckless disregard for long term common sense that is still so unfortunately typical of America. Perhaps the book is worth looking at, for those who still like to take a new view on America and on religion. But my feeling was, "I have seen it all before". Muslims may see the book as worthy of a fatwa, though one would possibly have to be somewhat of an 'Uncle Napoleon' to care enough for a fatwa.
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