A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber
Autor Michael J. Rosenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2019
Humorist, cartoonist, writer, playwright. James Thurber was to the twentieth century what Mark Twain was to the nineteenth. At one point, his books were the most read of any American in the world. His work could be found anywhere—from the pages of the New Yorker to the pages of children’s books, from illustrated advertisements to tea towels and dresses. Now, in celebration of the 125th anniversary of Thurber’s birth, A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber is a long overdue introduction and reintroduction to James Thurber and the artwork that fundamentally changed American cartoons.
Including some 260 drawings, this collection is the first comprehensive focus on his work as an artist, a cartoonist, and an illustrator. With commentary from a host of preeminent cartoonists and writers, including Ian Frazier, Seymour Chwast, and Michael Maslin, A Mile and a Half of Lines celebrates the significance of Thurber’s spontaneous, unstudied, and novel drawing style that not only altered the nature of American cartooning but also expanded the very possibilities of an illustrated line. Coinciding with the first major retrospective of Thurber’s art presented by the Columbus Museum of Art in 2019, A Mile and a Half of Lines showcases both classic Thurber as well as visual material never before seen in print.
Including some 260 drawings, this collection is the first comprehensive focus on his work as an artist, a cartoonist, and an illustrator. With commentary from a host of preeminent cartoonists and writers, including Ian Frazier, Seymour Chwast, and Michael Maslin, A Mile and a Half of Lines celebrates the significance of Thurber’s spontaneous, unstudied, and novel drawing style that not only altered the nature of American cartooning but also expanded the very possibilities of an illustrated line. Coinciding with the first major retrospective of Thurber’s art presented by the Columbus Museum of Art in 2019, A Mile and a Half of Lines showcases both classic Thurber as well as visual material never before seen in print.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814255339
ISBN-10: 0814255337
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 15 mm
Greutate: 1.02 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Trillium
ISBN-10: 0814255337
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 15 mm
Greutate: 1.02 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Trillium
Recenzii
“Thurber’s wit sustains life. He towers over all.” —Maira Kalman
“Thurber’s drawings dropped into the pages of the New Yorker like graphic boulders in a placid pond.”—Michael Maslin, New Yorker cartoonist
“The most wonderful thing about Thurber’s drawings is how they prove the point of a cartoon is not to show off a mastery of perspective or anatomy, or that the cartoonist can render a horse—or a sea—better than anyone else on the planet. Not that I can tell you what the point is, other than it has a lot more to do with being funny than anatomy.”—Roz Chast, author of Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Notă biografică
Michael J. Rosen is a writer, an illustrator, and an editor who has collaborated with the Thurber Estate and written about the works of James Thurber for almost forty years. He was the founding literary director of the Thurber House and has edited six volumes of Thurber’s work.
James Thurber (1894–1961), the twentieth century’s most popular American humorist, authored nearly three dozen collections of cartoons, essays, stories, fables, and biographical works—much of which he published as a founding voice of the New Yorker magazine—in addition to creating a shelf of classic children’s books, the gem-like autobiography My Life and Hard Times, and two Broadway productions.
James Thurber (1894–1961), the twentieth century’s most popular American humorist, authored nearly three dozen collections of cartoons, essays, stories, fables, and biographical works—much of which he published as a founding voice of the New Yorker magazine—in addition to creating a shelf of classic children’s books, the gem-like autobiography My Life and Hard Times, and two Broadway productions.
Extras
How I’d love to say this book allows us to see the full range of the artistic career of arguably the best-known twentieth-century cartoonist—his early and late periods, his work in various media . . . except there were less than three decades in which Thurber’s drawings appeared and very little to witness other than the shifts from pencil to pen and ink to chalk as Thurber’s complete blindness approached.
Thurber was well aware of his slight breadth of range. In a preface to the 1950 edition of his first book of drawings, The Seal in the Bedroom (1932), he wrote, "I went back over these drawings in the wistful hope that I would find evidence on which to base a fond belief that my work, or fun, somehow improved after this “first phase.” The only change I could find, however, in comparing old and recent scrawls, was a certain tightening of my lack of technique over the eras, the inevitable and impure result of constant practice. In the case of a man who cannot draw, but keeps on drawing anyway, practice pays in meager coin for what it takes away."
Likewise, I’d like to emphasize that this book is the first to truly consider James Thurber’s opus from one or another art historical or sociological point of view—except it’s the first, period. And while Thurber’s work was continually presented in one-man shows at small galleries and in group exhibits at major art institutions, and while his unmistakable drawings appeared in a host of magazines beyond the New Yorker, on dresses and ties and scarves and linens, on the covers and interiors of other books—to say nothing about his greater renown as a writer—with his death in 1961, his popularity and stature have waned.
Therefore, this book is a rallying cry: a host of preeminent cartoonists and writers reacquainting us with the significance and importance of Thurber’s drawings, which changed the nature of the cartoon in America and paved the way for an entirely different approach to visual art. It’s a showcase of some 250 drawings that coincides with the first major exhibit of Thurber’s art. Even though the Columbus Museum of Art, back when it was called the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, did mount two smaller shows of Thurber’s work, and even though works of Thurber’s appeared in several solo and scores of group shows during and after his lifetime, this year, 2019, the 125th anniversary of Thurber’s birth, offers the first chance to review the character of his contribution to American illustration, cartooning, and children’s books.
Thurber was well aware of his slight breadth of range. In a preface to the 1950 edition of his first book of drawings, The Seal in the Bedroom (1932), he wrote, "I went back over these drawings in the wistful hope that I would find evidence on which to base a fond belief that my work, or fun, somehow improved after this “first phase.” The only change I could find, however, in comparing old and recent scrawls, was a certain tightening of my lack of technique over the eras, the inevitable and impure result of constant practice. In the case of a man who cannot draw, but keeps on drawing anyway, practice pays in meager coin for what it takes away."
Likewise, I’d like to emphasize that this book is the first to truly consider James Thurber’s opus from one or another art historical or sociological point of view—except it’s the first, period. And while Thurber’s work was continually presented in one-man shows at small galleries and in group exhibits at major art institutions, and while his unmistakable drawings appeared in a host of magazines beyond the New Yorker, on dresses and ties and scarves and linens, on the covers and interiors of other books—to say nothing about his greater renown as a writer—with his death in 1961, his popularity and stature have waned.
Therefore, this book is a rallying cry: a host of preeminent cartoonists and writers reacquainting us with the significance and importance of Thurber’s drawings, which changed the nature of the cartoon in America and paved the way for an entirely different approach to visual art. It’s a showcase of some 250 drawings that coincides with the first major exhibit of Thurber’s art. Even though the Columbus Museum of Art, back when it was called the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, did mount two smaller shows of Thurber’s work, and even though works of Thurber’s appeared in several solo and scores of group shows during and after his lifetime, this year, 2019, the 125th anniversary of Thurber’s birth, offers the first chance to review the character of his contribution to American illustration, cartooning, and children’s books.
Descriere
First book to assemble the range of Thurber’s art, from decades of cartoons that established the New Yorker to illustrations for advertisements, children’s books, and others’ books. Includes previously unpublished art.