Edward Sorel Livres

"The fabulous life and times of one of our wittiest and most endearing and enduring caricaturists--in his own words and inimitable art. Alongside more than 150 of his drawings, cartoons, and caricatures--and in prose as spirited and wickedly pointed as his artwork--Edward Sorel gives us an unforgettable self-portrait: a poor Depression-era childhood in the Bronx (surrounded by loving Romanian-immigrant grandparents and a clan of mostly left-leaning aunts and uncles); his first stabs at drawing when pneumonia kept him out of school at the age of eight; his time as a student at New York's famed High School of Music & Art; the scrappy early days of Push Pin Studios, founded with fellow Cooper Union alums Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast and which became thehottest design group of the 1960s; his two marriages and four children; his many friends in New York's art and literary circles. Sorel charts the highlights of his remarkable career as the "young lefty becomes an older lefty," and, in magazines and newspapers, murals, cartoons, and comic strips, he steadily lampooned--and celebrated--American cultural and political life. He sets his story in the parallel trajectory of American presidents, from FDR to the present day--with the candor and depth of insight that could only come from someone who lived through it all--revealing the uproarious ways in which the personal and political collide in his mordant artwork"-- Provided by publisher

Edward Sorel is widely recognized as America's premier illustrator. But when he wasn't painting covers and doing drawings for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Time, Rolling Stone, and many other mass circulation magazines, he was indulging, over the last 30 years, in his first love—making comic strips. Sorel's strips are iconoclastic, cynical, and universally excoriating. No target escapes his watchful wrath: politicians, theological dynasties, ideologues left and right, lawyers, publishers, and the usual gang of movers and shakers—panderers, philistines, money-grubbers. (Nor does he spare himself.) Culled from the pages of The Nation, The Village Voice, Penthouse, and other magazines, Sorel proves he is that most dangerous of creatures—a cartoonist with a chip on his shoulder, an inveterate troublemaker, a burner of bridges. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

An hilarious send-up of sex, scandal and the Golden Age of Hollywood by a legendary cartoonist.

Il segreto che rende questo libro anche fisicamente diverso da qualsiasi altro non è il fascino di un vecchio processo a Hollywood, benché lo scandalo che trascinò Mary Astor in aula, direttamente dal set di Infedeltà, fu uno dei più rumorosi – e, per la stampa, più succulenti – che la storia ancora giovane, ma già parecchio movimentata di Tinseltown avesse fino a quel momento conosciuto. Non sono neanche le esilaranti tavole attraverso le quali Edward Sorel, calandosi nei panni di un disegnatore di tribunale, ha voluto raccontare il caso, trasformandole in un romanzo grafico parallelo a quello scritto. No, il segreto è nella scintilla che ha dato inizio a tutta questa vicenda, il ritrovamento casuale, durante una ristrutturazione d’interni, di alcuni ritagli di giornale che di quel processo tracciavano la cronaca. Leggendoli, Sorel è tornato di colpo, per una specie di incantesimo, il ragazzo che era stato, lo stesso che, fra tutte le stelle del firmamento hollywodiano, proprio Mary aveva scelto come sua: per fornire di quei fatti lontani, con la stessa voce di allora, una ricostruzione del tutto personale. Sembra, a tratti, la trascrizione di un sogno: ma è la rievocazione più efficace e travolgente fin qui creata della città di cartapesta dalla quale, un tempo, tutti i sogni avevano origine.