All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't) : Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page / / Jerelle Kraus

• Autore: Kraus Jerelle
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 071 .471
• Soggetto topico: American wit and humor, Pictorial; Editorial cartoons -- New York (State) -- New York; New York times
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Origins -- The Seventies -- The Eighties -- The Nineties -- The Aughts -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that-in 1970-prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's non-staff bylines shatter tradition, but the pictures were revolutionary. Unlike anything ever seen in a newspaper, Op-Ed art became a globally influential idiom that reached beyond narrative for metaphor and changed illustration's very purpose and potential. Jerelle Kraus, whose thirteen-year tenure as Op-Ed art director far exceeds that of any other art director or editor, unveils a riveting account of working at the Times. Her insider anecdotes include the reasons why artist Saul Steinberg hated the Times, why editor Howell Raines stopped the presses to kill a feature by Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau, and why reporter Syd Schanburg whose story was told in the movie The Killing Fields stated that he would travel anywhere to see Kissinger hanged, as well as Kraus's tale of surviving two and a half hours alone with the dethroned peerless outlaw, Richard Nixon. All the Art features a satiric portrayal of John McCain, a classic cartoon of Barack Obama by Jules Feiffer, and a drawing of Hillary Clinton and Obama by Barry Blitt. But when Frank Rich wrote a column discussing Hillary Clinton exclusively, the Times refused to allow Blitt to portray her. Nearly any notion is palatable in prose, yet editors perceive pictures as a far greater threat. Confucius underestimated the number of words an image is worth; the thousand-fold power of a picture is also its curse. Op-Ed's subject is the world, and its illustrations are created by the world's finest graphic artists. The 142 artists whose work appears in this book hail from thirty nations and five continents, and their 324 pictures-gleaned from a total of 30,000-reflect artists' common drive to communicate their creative visions and to stir our vibrant cultural-political pot.
• Titolo autorizzato: All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't)
• ISBN: 0-231-53323-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815715403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II