Coffee Table Book, Covering the '60s: George Lois, the Esquire Era, Vintage Decorative Book of 1960s Mens Fashion Magazine Covers
$75.00
George Lois was the genius graphic designer responsible for the legendary series of covers of Esquire magazine that were an icon-shattering and icon-defining commentary on the '60s. Lois was an inescapable advertising genius and designated media renaissance man of the ‘60s.
This collection of the best of those covers includes short anecdotes by Lois, but the chief interest is in the pictures he created. His covers were generally poster-like and free of excess words, and yet these pictures say plenty.
The list of subjects is stellar: Marilyn Monroe, Norman Mailer, Muhammad Ali, Andy Warhol, Germaine Greer, and Richard Nixon. Sometimes the picture is a tease for the story within, sometimes it subverts it (as in the cover of a hangdog Roy Cohn with a ridiculous halo that accompanied a self-justifying piece written by Cohn). Only one of the covers reproduced here, a nude shot of Jack Nicholson, was cut before press time.
B I B L I O G R A P H I C D E T A I L S
Paperback, 192 pages
The Monacelli Press, Inc., New York
Distributed by Penguin
Printed and Bound in Italy
August 1996
C O N D I T I O N
Book is in new condition, still wrapped in cellophane with the original price tag. There are a few tears in the cellophane but there doesn't seem to be any discoloration. I didn’t open the book, that last photo isn’t mine.
M E A S U R E M E N T S
10.12"W x 0.85"D x 12.78"H
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