Self-importance Honest 100 Years showcases a century of persona and energy, artwork and commerce, disaster and tradition—each intellectual and low—on this assortment of pictures that graced the pages of journal, and a few printed for the very first time. “A surprising artifact.” (New York Instances Guide Evaluation)
From its inception in 1913, by way of the Jazz Age and the Despair, to its reincarnation within the boom-boom Reagan years, to the image-saturated Data Age, Self-importance Honest has introduced the fashionable period because it has unfolded, utilizing wit, creativeness, peerless literary narrative, and daring, groundbreaking imagery from the best photographers, artists, and illustrators of the day.
Edited by Self-importance Honest editor Graydon Carter, this luxurious guide takes a decade-by-decade have a look at the world as seen by the journal, stopping to explain the incomparable editor Frank Crowninshield and the beginning of the Jazz Age Self-importance Honest, the journal’s controversial rebirth in 1983, and the historical past of the glamorous Self-importance Honest Oscar Occasion.
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Writer : Harry N. Abrams
Publication date : October 15, 2013
Version : Illustrated
Language : English
Print size : 456 pages
ISBN-10 : 1419708635
ISBN-13 : 978-1419708633
Merchandise Weight : 8.44 kilos
Dimensions : 14.25 x 11 x 1.75 inches
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