Top Hats and Flappers - Hardcover

Patterson, Russell; Chun (ed), Alex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 156097737X ISBN 13: 9781560977377

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2006

Synopsis

edited by Shane Glines & Alex Chin
One of the most influential illustrators/cartoonists of his generation, Russell Patterson's impact spanned decades. Along with an introductory essay by illustration art historian Armando Mendez, this volume showcases Patterson at his pinnacle, featuring many of his most important and dynamic magazine covers and illustrations from the 1920s all the way to the Atomic Age.

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Rare Book

Synopsis

This is a definitive collection of a legend from the golden age of magazine illustration. In the 1920s, America was the last stand of the Golden Age of Illustration and a time of tremendous social change. On one side of Paradise were the nationally known illustrators like Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgomery Flagg and J.C. Leyendecker. But rapidly growing in popularity were the young irreverent illustrators/cartoonists who worked for the emerging humour magazines "Judge", "College Humour", "Ballyhoo" and "Life". Of these young ink-slingers, the one who came closest to capturing his white-hot age was a handsome man out of Omaha and Chicago named Russell Patterson. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Patterson didn't vanish after the Stock Market Crash in 1929. He just found new ways to keep his high style in front of a public desperate for light entertainment - in newspaper strips, magazine covers, posters, costumes and set designs for Hollywood and Broadway, amusement parks to WAC uniforms, all the way to the Atomic Age.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156097737X
• ISBN 13: 9781560977377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176