The Art of the New Yorker 1925-1995

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Published to celebrate The New Yorker s seventieth anniversary and illustrated with more than 400 drawings and paintings, including thirtytwo pages in fali color, this is the first comprehensive exploration of the magazine's cartoons, covers, spots, illustrations, caricatures, and photographs through the years. Lee Lorenz, art editor of The New Yorker for more than two decades, and himself a noted cartoonist, telis and shows how the magazine's distinctive look has gradually developed. In a lively narrative filled with stories of the artists and anecdotes of life at The New Yorker, he talks about the trial and error of the early years as Harold Ross and his fledgling staff worked to translate Ross's originál vision into reality. We witness the quiet revolution the magaziné effected in cartoons; we see its fresh, vitai, and constantly changing ways of commenting on the world in pictures; we learn how the purpose and look of the covers, and the use of various kinds of interior art,... Tovább

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Published to celebrate The New Yorker s seventieth anniversary and illustrated with more than 400 drawings and paintings, including thirtytwo pages in fali color, this is the first comprehensive exploration of the magazine's cartoons, covers, spots, illustrations, caricatures, and photographs through the years. Lee Lorenz, art editor of The New Yorker for more than two decades, and himself a noted cartoonist, telis and shows how the magazine's distinctive look has gradually developed. In a lively narrative filled with stories of the artists and anecdotes of life at The New Yorker, he talks about the trial and error of the early years as Harold Ross and his fledgling staff worked to translate Ross's originál vision into reality. We witness the quiet revolution the magaziné effected in cartoons; we see its fresh, vitai, and constantly changing ways of commenting on the world in pictures; we learn how the purpose and look of the covers, and the use of various kinds of interior art, have sometimes almost invisibly and sometimes radically changed, and how the art is chosen. And interspersed throughout the narrative is the art itself, the published, and unpublished, work of Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, James Thurber, Saul Steinberg, William Steig, George Price, Charles Addams, George Booth, Roz Chast, Edward Sorel, and their singular peers. The Art ofThe New Yorker is a celebration of somé of the most extraordinarily gifted American artists of the twentieth century-and the unsurpassed comic brilliance with which they have, for more than seven decades, revealed and defined the look, the spirit, the manners, the morals, of the passing scene. Vissza