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9781580930727

The Risko Book

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    9781580930727

  • ISBN10:

    1580930727

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-10-01
  • Publisher: The Monacelli Press
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Summary

Robert Risko's celebrity caricatures are instantly recognizable -- recognizable both as unmistakable portraits of famous subjects and as examples of Risko's bold and fluid style. Risko's career was launched in 1978 when Andy Warhol gave him an assignment forInterviewmagazine. Since then he has drawn likenesses of hundreds of notables from the worlds of film, television, politics, and culture. In addition to countless images forVanity Fair,Rolling Stone,The New Yorker, and other major magazines, Risko has illustrated book jackets, video covers, movie posters, and CD packages. The Risko Bookis the first collection of his work. Almost two hundred striking images are divided into ten groups: Television, Style, Music, Thinkers, Film, Scandals, Media, Sports, Theater, and Politics. Bill and Hillary Clinton ride the wave of Whitewater across from well-shod Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos; a young Christian Slater grimaces back at legendary star Jack Nicholson; Dolly Parton bursts out of a television set to the accompaniment of Stevie Wonder; Bishop Desmond Tutu, amid a rainbow splatter of color, looks on as Boris Yeltsin has a great fall; alter egos Dame Edna and Barry Humphries face Julie Andrews' split personality of Victor/Victoria. Other famous faces include Julia Roberts, Dominick Dunne, Sophia Loren, Elvis Presley, Martha Stewart, Spike Lee, Giorgio Armani, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jordan, Madonna, Elvis Presley, Jesse Jackson, Claudia Schiffer, and David Letterman. Not only a showcase for Risko's high-style caricatures,The Risko Bookis a fascinating portrait of the newsmakers, both famous and infamous, of the last two decades of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Robert Risko is an artist and caricaturist who has published his work in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Time, Interview, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Newsweek, and many other publications.

Graydon Carter is the editor of Vanity Fair.

Kevin Sessums is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair.

Table of Contents

David Letterman
Joan Collins
Johnny Carson
Roseanne
Calista Flockhart
Vanna White
Will Smith
Bob Newhart
Seinfeld Gang
Merv Griffin
Alistair Cooke
Fran Drescher
Welcome Back Kotter
Lucille Ball
Larry Hagman
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Julia Child
The Honeymooners
Bob Hope
Bill Cosby
Oprah
Rosie O'Donnell
Wayne's World
Gilda Radner

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