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The
Risko Book
by Robert Risko, Kevin Sessums (Editor), Graydon Carter (Editor)
Paperback: 224 pages; Dimensions (in inches):
0.61 x 12.03 x 9.18
Publisher: The Monacelli Press; (October 19, 2000)
ISBN: 1580930727
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Robert
Risko’s celebrity caricatures are instantly recognizable – recognizable
both as unmistakable likenesses of famous subjects and as examples
of Risko’s bold and fluid style. Since 1978 when Andy Warhol gave
him his first assignment for Interview magazine, Risko has drawn
portraits of hundreds of notables from the worlds of film and television,
rock and jazz music, politics, and literature. In addition to countless
images for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and other
major magazines, Risko has illustrated book jackets, video covers,
movie posters, and CD packages.
The Risko
Book is the first collection of his work. Included among the 180
striking images are political power couples Bill and Hillary Clinton,
George and Barbara Bush, and Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles;
writers Jacqueline Susann, Truman Capote, and Stephen King, rock
stars Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Madonna, and Prince; television
fixtures David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, and Calista Flockhart;
movie stars Jack Nicholson, Marilyn Monroe, Sean Connery, Jodie
Foster, and Julia Roberts; sports figures Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan,
and Joe DiMaggio; fashion models and designers Christy Turlington,
Cindy Crawford, Karl Lagerfeld, and Giorgio Armani; and moguls Bill
Gates, S. I. Newhouse, and Martha Stewart. Not only a showcase for
Risko’s high-style caricatures, The Risko Book is a fascinating
portrait of the newsmakers, both famous and infamous, of the last
two decades of the 20th century.
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