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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Putting a face on the Jazz Age,
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This review is from: Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures (Paperback)
It's quite a shame that this book has not withstood the deluge of time. Miguel Covarrubias was a wonderfully entertaining caricaturist. If you can't find any samples of his work on the web, just try to imagine a cubist Al Hirschfeld, and you'll have _some_ of the idea.Covarrubias drew mainly for the old _Vanity Fair_ back in the '20s. Clark Gable, Alexander Woollcott, Shirley Temple, Paul Whiteman, and other luminaries were portrayed in caricatures that ranged from art-deco to surrealistic to economical doodles, almost every one conclusively capturing the spirit of the subject. His eye became somewhat less keen as the Twenties rolled into the Thirties, and he couldn't relate as well to the mood of the new era. However, his second-rate work was streets ahead of most illustrators' best, so don't let that put you off. He seems to have drifted out of the profession well before dying in the late '50s. Once again, it's a shame that this book is OOP. Covarrubias belongs in the Twenties pantheon he caricatured so incisively. |
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Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures by Beverly J. Cox (Hardcover - Jan. 1985)
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