J.C. Leyendecker

This is an great quality book with excellent content. Apart from showing us amazing high quality art it also tells us who JC was in real life most which was a mystery before this book.There us alot of art in this book but it cannot contain all of JC's work in full size so many magzine covers have been published in a smaller thumbnail view. This is the only sad part.

I attended the recent show at the New York Historical Society showing Leyendecker's work. It was small, but well worth seeing. In advance, I wanted to learn more about the artist, and this book does an amazing job. Although Leyendecker let a rather reclusive life and didn't leave much for biographers to comb through, the authors of this book found just about every item about his family, life and work as an artist. They give a really full picture of the man, how he become a first rate illustrator, and was a the forefront of many new trends.First, the quality of the book itself is high. The colors are saturated and the images are well printed to see detail. Second, text is well written and balanced. Third, I really learned a lot about the graphic arts industry during his lifetime, how it changed it, how important it was to American life, and how the medium changed forever. It was a real eye-opener.The actual images are beyond gorgeous. The drawn men are what every man wants to be -- handsome, virile, and a consummate gentleman. The details of the images are jaw dropping in their virtuosity, and you wonder how any human could draw so convincingly.

This really is a lavish book brimming with J.C. Leydendecker's work. One thing that I really like is beneath the dust jacket, the front and back covers are decorated with more of his art.I will say that if you get this book, then get it for the artwork alone and not the written text. It's filled with a lot of inaccuracies and biases by the authors.This book will definitely appeal to a large variety of people who enjoy art, study art or graphic design or just appreciate vintage art.Highly recommended!

Cuando se lee un libro sobre de arte lo más importante son las imágenes y este está lleno. Un obra que faltaba para reivindicar este magnífico ilustrador que creo el mito de Estados Unidos como una Nueva Arcadia de nuevos Apolos regalados con toda suerte de virtudes y modelos para el resto del mundo. Qué pena que este espejismo ya se haya esfumado...

Très bon produit

A chi è affascinato da questo artista ed in generale a chi ama l'illustrazione questo libro darà soddisfazione.La bellezza del suo tratto lascia in ammirazione e di certo osservando il suo lavoro si può imparare.Consigliato a chi ama questo periodo dell'illustrazione americana, a chi si stia cimentando con il disegno anatomico e di posa.