The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker

Mankoff, Robert (Edited by); Remnick, David (Foreword by)

ISBN 10: 1579123228 / ISBN 13: 9781579123222

Edité par Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York, 2004

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Pictorial boards, 655 pages, illustrations; 34 cm. + 2 CD-ROMs (4 3/4 in.). Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Profusely illustrated. *** "More than a book, this is a bona fide publishing event. The largest-ever collection of New Yorker cartoons features the best of every decade in book form, plus two easy-to-browse CDs--Windows and Macintosh compatible--with every cartoon ever published in the magazine--more than 68,000 of them! Since its founding in the 1920s, The New Yorker has had a profound cultural impact on the country and the world, and has almost singlehandedly elevated the cartoon to an art form. For the first time ever, EVERY cartoon ever published in The New Yorker is collected in one place. Accompanying the cartoons in the book, several thousand of them organized chronologically, are essays by eminent New Yorker writers reflecting on the life and times (and sense of humor) of each successive decade. Additionally, each decade includes profiles and mini-portfolios of the cartoonists who made their marks on the era, from Peter Arno and Charles Addams to Bruce Eric Kaplan and Roz Chast. 'Theme' features cover such subjects as Drinking, The Depression, and Politics. The two accompanying CDs feature every cartoon ever published in the magazine in a format that is accessible on any home computer and is browsable by date, cartoonist, subject, and more. This groundbreaking book, several years in the making, has been lovingly compiled by current New Yorker cartoon editor (and respected cartoonist and author) Robert Mankoff, and the foreword is by David Remnick, the magazine's esteemed editor." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Editor's note, by Robert Mankoff; Foreword, by David Remnick; The First decade: 1925-34 (Introduction, by Roger Angell. The Depression. Peter Arno); The Second decade: 1935-44 (Introduction, by Nancy Franklin. George Price. Drinking. James Thurber); The Third decade: 1945-54 (Introduction, by Lillian Ross. Nudity. Charles Addams. Television); The Fourth decade: 1955-64 (Introduction, by John Updike. William Steig. Cars. Saul Steinberg); The Fifth decade: 1965-74 (Introduction, by Calvin Trillin. The Space program. George Booth); The Sixth decade: 1975-84 (Introduction, by Ian Frazier. Slipper dogs. Jack Ziegler); The Seventh decade: 1985-94 (Introduction, by Mark Singer. Roz Chast. Business culture); The Eighth decade: 1995-2004 (Introduction, by Rebecca Mead. Bruce Eric Kaplan. The Internet. Politics); Index of artists [cited in the book]. Size: Folio.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
• Éditeur: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1579123228
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781579123222
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Genre & Subject::Caricature & Cartoons
  • USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999
  • XXXL: Jumbo
  • USA::5. Modern, 1900-1945
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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Synopsis

The book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times has called "indispensable" and "a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too" is finally available in paperback—fully updated and featuring a brand new introduction by Adam Gopnik.

Organized by decade, with commentary by some of the magazine's finest writers, this landmark collection showcases the work of the hundreds of talented artists who have contributed cartoons over the course ofThe New Yorker's eight-two-year history. From the early cartoons of Peter Arno, George Price and Charles Addams to the cutting-edge work of Alex Gregory, Matthew Diffee and Bruce Eric Kaplan (with stops along the way for the genius of Charles Barsotti, Roz Chast, Jack Ziegler, George Booth, and many others), the art collected here forms, as David Remnick puts it in his Foreword, "the longest-running popular comic genre in American life."

Throughout the book, brief overviews of each era's predominant themes—from the Depression and nudity to technology and the Internet, highlight various genres of cartoons and shed light on our pastimes and preoccupations. Brief profiles and mini-portfolios spotlight the work of key cartoonists, including Arno, Chast, Ziegler, and others.

The DVD-ROM included with the book is what really makes the "Complete Cartoons" complete. Compatible with most home computers and easily browsable, the disk contains a mind-boggling 70,363 cartoons, indexed in a variety of ways. Perhaps you'd like to find all the cartoons by your favorite artist. Or maybe you'd like to look up the cartoons that ran the week you were born, or all of the cartoons on a particular subject. Of course, you can always begin at the beginning, February 21, 1925, and experience the unprecedented pleasure of reading through every single cartoon ever published in The New Yorker.

Enjoy this one-of-a-kind protrait of American life over the past eight decades, as captured by the talented pens and singular outlooks of the masters of the cartoonist's art.

À propos de l'auteur

ADAM GOPNIK has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His work for the magazine has won the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. From 1995-2000, Gopnik lived in Paris, where the newspaper Le Monde praised his "witty and Voltairean picture of French life." He now lives in New York with his wife, Martha Parker, and their two children, Luke and Olivia.

Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker and the founder and president of the Cartoon Bank. He is an accomplished cartoonist, the author of The Naked Cartoonist, and the editor of The New Yorker Book of Cartoon Puzzles and Games (both from Black Dog & Leventhal), as well as many cartoon collections. He lives in Hastings, New York.