We’ve been writing about R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis on and off here at HU for the past month. I think we’re finally done (hear that co-bloggers? Stop it!), but I thought it might be helpful to provide a convenient index of the roundtable. So here it is:
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The entire roundtable is here.
Ng Suat Tong begins the roundtable by comparing R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis to the Biblical images of other great artists.
Ken Parille, writing at his own site, defends Crumb’s Genesis.
Ng Suat Tong responds to Ken Parille’s post.
Ken Parille at his own site, talks about pastoral and presence in Crumb’s Genesis.
Alan Choate defends Crumb’s Genesis.
Ng Suat Tong replies to Alan Choate.
Alan Choate continues his defense of Crumb’s Genesis.
Ng Suat Tong responds to Alan Choate’s further comments.
Noah Berlatsky talks about Crumb, Kierkegaard, and floating bearded heads.
Caroline Small compares Crumb’s Genesis to Biblical illustrations by Howard Finster and Basil Wolverton.
Matthias Wivel discusses Crumb, Rembrandt, Breughel, and cartooning as exegesis.
In a slight detour, Noah Berlatsky discusses a Rembrandt illustration from Genesis that Matthias highlighted.
Peter Sattler argues that Crumb’s treatment of Genesis is not sufficiently literal.
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In addition to the posts, the discussion has generated a lot of comments. Besides the writers above, interesting points have been made by
Steven Grant (and also here)
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Thanks so much to Suat for starting this, to all our other posters, and for everyone who took time to comment…and of course to read it.