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 work—ranging 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 projects—but also the life that carried her from New York’s high bohemia as a young artist to the world of cutting-edge visual journalism.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Barbara Nessim
Introduction: Under the Radar
David Galloway
Starting Out
Matthew Israel in conversation with Barbara Nessim
Portfolio: Man and the Machine 1960
Anatomizing the Not(e)books
Christoph Benjamin Schulz
Portfolio: Word & Image 1960-1968
Fashion Forward
Anne Telford
Portfolio: Womangirls 1971-1974
Walking as Womangirl
Elyssa Dimant
Portfolio: Plain Shoes 1971-9175
Conceptual Illustrations
Steven Heller
Illustrations Come Back
Roger Black
Portfolio: Heads of Color 1978-1984
Electronic Atelier
Cynthia Goodman
Portfolio: Computer Heads 1982-1984
Random Access Memories and Digital Publishing
Douglas Dodds
Portfolio: Random Access Memories 1990-1991
The Model Project
Kiša Lala
Portfolio: Model Project 2008-2009
The Divine Image: Space and Time in Context
Philip Koether
Chronicles of Beauty
David Galloway
Portfolio: Chronicles of Beauty 2009-2010
Looking Backward
Gloria Steinem
Portfolio: Collage Drawing Heads 2011-2012
The Human Connection
Milton Glaser
Voices
Contributors
Acknowledgement
Captions and Credits
Barbara Nessim
Introduction: Under the Radar
David Galloway
Starting Out
Matthew Israel in conversation with Barbara Nessim
Portfolio: Man and the Machine 1960
Anatomizing the Not(e)books
Christoph Benjamin Schulz
Portfolio: Word & Image 1960-1968
Fashion Forward
Anne Telford
Portfolio: Womangirls 1971-1974
Walking as Womangirl
Elyssa Dimant
Portfolio: Plain Shoes 1971-9175
Conceptual Illustrations
Steven Heller
Illustrations Come Back
Roger Black
Portfolio: Heads of Color 1978-1984
Electronic Atelier
Cynthia Goodman
Portfolio: Computer Heads 1982-1984
Random Access Memories and Digital Publishing
Douglas Dodds
Portfolio: Random Access Memories 1990-1991
The Model Project
Kiša Lala
Portfolio: Model Project 2008-2009
The Divine Image: Space and Time in Context
Philip Koether
Chronicles of Beauty
David Galloway
Portfolio: Chronicles of Beauty 2009-2010
Looking Backward
Gloria Steinem
Portfolio: Collage Drawing Heads 2011-2012
The Human Connection
Milton Glaser
Voices
Contributors
Acknowledgement
Captions and Credits
Contributors
Roger Black
Magazine designer
Elyssa Dimant
Fashion historian
Douglas Dodds
Senior Curator in the Word and Image Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Curator of Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life
David Galloway
Independent curator and author
Cynthia Goodman
Curator and author, former director of
the IBM Gallery for Science and Art
Steven Heller
Design critic and historian
Matthew Israel
Art historian
Philip Koether
Architect
Kiša Lala
Curator and essayist
Christoph Benjamin Schulz
Art Historian and curator
Gloria Steinem
Journalist and political activist
Anne Telford
Founding editor of Communication Arts magazine
Milton Glaser
Graphic designer
Magazine designer
Elyssa Dimant
Fashion historian
Douglas Dodds
Senior Curator in the Word and Image Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Curator of Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life
David Galloway
Independent curator and author
Cynthia Goodman
Curator and author, former director of
the IBM Gallery for Science and Art
Steven Heller
Design critic and historian
Matthew Israel
Art historian
Philip Koether
Architect
Kiša Lala
Curator and essayist
Christoph Benjamin Schulz
Art Historian and curator
Gloria Steinem
Journalist and political activist
Anne Telford
Founding editor of Communication Arts magazine
Milton Glaser
Graphic designer
