Internationally renowned artist and illustrator Barbara Nessim's images of female figures, originating in the counterculture of the 1960s, place her in a tradition of American iconography that extends from Norman Rockwell to Keith Haring. A constant innovator, Nessim incorporates fashion, computers, and photography into her popular art. This book captures not only the workranging from the sketchbooks that are the wellspring of her art to prominent magazine assignments, such as a Rolling Stone cover of John Lennon, to elaborate large-scale projectsbut also the life that carried her from New Yorks high bohemia as a young artist to the world of cutting-edge visual journalism.Praise for Barbara Nessim:Women who built careers as illustrators in Mad Menera New York were few and far between, and one is Barbara Nessim. The New York Times
David Galloway is an independent curator and author. Contributors include Christoph Benjamin Schulz, art historian and curator; Anne Telford, founding editor of Communication Arts magazine; Eylssa Dimant, fashion historian; Steven Heller, design critic and historian; Roger Black, pioneering magazine designer; Cynthia Goodman, former director of the IBM Gallery in New York; Douglas Dodds, curator at the V&A Museum; Kisa Lala, curator and essayist; Philip Koether, architect; and Gloria Steinem, journalist and activist.
