One Hundred Portraits - by Barry Moser (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Portraits by a master illustrator and engraver, Barry Moser.</b> <p/> Renowned for having illustrated over 200 books for children and adults, Barry Moser, a member of the National Academy of Design, has created a number of new engravings for this collection of greatest portraits. <p/>Represented are poets (John Keats, William Wordsworth, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman), authors (Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Virginia Hamilton), composers (Frédéric Chopin, George Frideric Handel, Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius), activists (Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Luther King), politicans and statesmen (Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and artists (Jean Cocteau, Winslow Homer, William Blake, Rembrandt van Rijn), as well as Moser's immediate family. <p/>In the brief afterword, Moser discusses the sources for his portraits, including subjects of whom no accurate depictions exist, such as Chaucer. In those cases Moser utilized death masks, old photographs, and even ancient busts. <p/>Printed on heavy matte paper, with spare titles including name, dates of birth and death, and occupation, <b>One Hundred Portraits</b> is a pleasure to study. The highly detailed engravings result in portraits of very expressive faces, and giving readers, according to Ann Patchett in the book's preface, "the chance to visit the people we were sure of and learn something more."</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Praise for <b>One Hundred Portraits</b> <p/> "Perhaps the finest printmaker at work today, Mr. Moser has over the past 40 years captured countless famous countenances. <b>One Hundred Portraits</b> collects the best."--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i> <p/> "Long interested in the character of creators, be they writers, artists, or composers, Moser once told an interviewer, 'The human face is almost as individual as a fingerprint. It fascinates me to no end.' . . . Moser's new book <b>One Hundred Portraits</b> gathers a cast of characters through the ages, with an emphasis on British and American notables. Moser, who lives in Western Massachusetts, works with darkness, light, and lines to achieve faces that carry a sense of life's burdens and beauties as his subjects lived them. Ann Patchett writes in the foreword that she welcomes Moser's portraits of novelists as an opportunity to learn more about the souls that animate their works."--<i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/> "Even if you are not familiar with Barry Moser's name, you've likely seen his distinctive engravings while reading a classic novel or leafing through a children's book. His illustrated edition of the King James Bible, published in 1999, has become a classic. The portraits presented here include artists, musicians and writers. Some were originally commissioned works, while others were created specifically for this book, including first-time portraits of his father, mother and wife."--<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/> "Moser is a rare being, a book illustrator working in a traditional medium with a distinctive and vital vision. The recipient of many awards, Moser has illustrated such foundational works as the <b>King James Bible</b>, <b>Alice in Wonderland</b>, and <b>Moby-Dick</b>. His newest book is wholly his own, a portrait gallery of 100 writers, artists, and leaders. Moser's small, firmly detailed, strongly textured, and subtly expressive black-and-white portraits demonstrate all that art can grasp and encompass. We read, not merely look at, these dramatic portraits of people who gazed into the morass and out at the horizon and were indelibly changed and provoked by what they saw. Each astute, intricate, psychologically charged portrait extends what we thought we knew of each remarkable subject."--<i>Booklist</i> <p/> "Ann Patchett notes in her foreword that what makes these portraits so compelling is that Moser has brought all he knows of these people -- his reading, viewing, and understanding -- to bear on each composition and bids us to look through his eyes so that we see each subject in a new way. . . . [Moser's] presence in each image is beyond dispute and the result is a rich collaboration of subject, artist, and viewer."--<i>The Bloomsbury Review</i></p><br>
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