Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Cover Portraits

by Frederick S. Voss and National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Book Overview

Celebrating Time's 75th anniversary, this book presents 75 works of art commissioned for the magazine's cover by some of America's best-known artists, from Andrew Wyeth's portrait of Dwight Eisenhower... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821224980
• ISBN13: 9780821224984
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 12.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Gem for Any Art Lover

I love art, so when I saw this book, I knew I had to have it for my library. What's cool about this book are the various artistic styles represented by some of the most famous people in the world . One cannot go wrong with Time Life Books .

Wow!

I bought this book for my classroom and wondered later why I picked it up. When I really looked through the book, I found some really great art focusing on important personas from the 20th Century. It is a really nice book to have. A keepsake.

Summary

'Celebrating Time's 75th anniversary, this book presents work commissioned for the magazine's cover by some of the century's best-known artists, ranging from Andrew Wyeth's portrait of Dwight Eisenhower to Andy Warhol's Michael Jackson.This book presents seventy-five artworks commissioned for the magazine's covers by some of the century's best-known artists, from Dwight Eisenhower by Andrew Wyeth to Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol. Faces of TIME accompanied an exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C. Among the outstanding covers reproduced are Roy Lichtenstein's dynamic 1968 image of Bobby Kennedy, Ben Shahn's Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gerald Scarfe's papier-mache caricatures of the Beatles. Jay Leno relates his feelings - and his mother's reaction - to being pictured on the cover of TIME. Frederick S. Voss provides a visual history of the magazine and shows how making it onto the cover of TIME has come to be the ultimate accolade.' - From The Publisher