Life on the press : the popular art and illustrations of George Benjamin Luks / Robert L. Gambone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gambone, Robert L., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933--Criticism and interpretation.

Luks, George Benjamin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His professional development came, however, from his apprenticeship as a newspaper and magazine artist. Luks spent his early career drawing cartoons, spot illustrations, political caricatures, and comic strips for the New York World and other papers. These early portraits and stories of street urchins, peddlers, shopkeepers, and other ordinary New Yorkers would all be revisited in his later painting. He ach

Contents:

Preface

A Luks biography : the context of his graphic art

An illustrator comes of age

Life on the press : Philadelphia evening bulletin and New York world

The gilded age from the other side of the tracks : Hogan's alley

Politics and sarcasm : Sandburrs and the Verdict

Into the roaring twenties : Vanity fair and New Yorker

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-48574-1

9786612485749

1-60473-479-5

OCLC:

468765167