Tom Wolfe on Illustration





This from the Illustrator's Partnership newsletter...

" I feel very comfortable predicting that art historians 50 years from now,
assuming we're in a world kind enough to indulge art historians, will look
back upon illustrators as the great American artists of the second half of
the 20th century."

So says Tom Wolfe, author of The Right Stuff and Bonfire of the Vanities in
the new, exclusive IPA interview

In this wide-ranging conversation conducted by C.F. Payne, Wolfe discusses
the role of illustrators in contemporary society, the persistence of
craftsmanship in an age of cynicism and the commercial pressures that risk
"reducing artists to the level of cottage weavers in the old cottage weaving
system."

"... That is the pernicious side of the whole spree of takeovers in the last
26 years. You really are eliminating competition. If you had competition
between all those magazines -- if Vanity Fair was really competing with the
New Yorker -- which it isn¹t -- illustrators wouldn¹t have to face the
problem they face now."

Posted: Thu - May 13, 2004 at 02:18 PM        

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