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Arts Gratia Obama

November 18, 2008 by Frank Gannon | Filed Under American Politics, Culture, Media, Presidents, U.S. History 

John Taylor gets it exactly right (so what else is new?) — the Obama/FDR idea is made for the cartoonist’s deft touch (not the photoshopper’s heavy hand).  To wit: Richard Thompson’s illustration for George Packer’s recent article  —”The New Liberalism”— in The New Yorker.

The magazine achieves illustrative excellence again this week (so what else is new?) with John Ritter’s hommage to James Rosenquist’s iconic “President Elect” (1960-1961)” for Editor David Remnick’s thoughtful “The Joshua Generation,” about race and the Obama campaign.



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