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Book SynopsisA monograph on the forgotten visionary artist Herbert Crowley, who exibited in the Armory Show alongside Picasso, was published in the New York Herald alongside Winsor McCay, and then mysteriously vanished.
Trade Review"As someone interested in the weirdnesses and roads not taken in the history of comix, Crowley is one of the most idiosyncratic and quirky artists in the cohort. I salute him, and you for doing the heavy-lifting archaeological dig of bringing him back to the surface again." - Art Spiegelman "It's totally unique. There's nothing else like it. I think that THE WIGGLEMUCH is the greatest newspaper strip ever drawn. It's just this weird, infantile crazy coming with these heavy, heavy themes in it. It's just amazing." -Jim Woodring "Herbert Crowley's drawings are quite interesting in as much as they contain curious symbols referring to the sympathicus as well as to the multiple luminosities of the collective unconscious. He has been driven in to astounding depths -- quite dangerous when consciousness is not up to it. Such things usually leave a peculiar void in the conscious world after they have passed." -Carl Jung "[Herbert Crowley's] life and work is now the subject of a large and generously illustrated book, Herbert Crowley: The Temple of Silence by Justin Duerr. It is the kind of scholarly and research-driven deep dive that I wish for about... well, most everything. Duerr gathers every conceivable strand of Crowley's unusual and extremely complicated life and work and weaves them together into a coherent and quite moving whole." -Dan Nadel
"A surrealistic, sometimes unsettling pleasure for fans of the avant-garde and an obvious labor of love for all concerned."
