Bob Adelman war ein preisgekrönter Fotojournalist, dessen Objektiv entscheidende Momente der Geschichte einfing, insbesondere die Dokumentation der Bürgerrechtsbewegung. Oft an der Seite von Martin Luther King, boten seine Bilder eine intime Perspektive auf diese transformative Ära. Seine Arbeiten zierten die Titelseiten großer Magazine und befinden sich in den Sammlungen angesehener Institutionen wie dem Smithsonian und dem Museum of Modern Art, was sein Vermächtnis als bedeutender visueller Erzähler festigt.
One of the founders of pop art, the author is best known for largescale renditions of comic-strip art, and for fusing comicbook techniques with high art in his appropriations of such artists as Picasso and Mondrian. In this title, the author's unique style celebrates the ABC, with results that are surprising, delightful and amusing.
Introductory Essay by Art Spiegelman Commentary by Richard Merkin ABOVEGROUND FOR THE FIRST TIME As wry and raunchy as the subject it celebrates, this inspired volume introduces a new generation to the Tijuana Bibles, underground comic art form the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s devoted to making sexual mockery of every sacred cow in the pasture. Folk art with a subversive edge, the Bibles are unveiled here with a hundred life-size reproductions.