Drawn Testimony, 9781786584373
Paperback
Pencil vs. pixels: Witnessing history’s most notorious through an artist’s eye.

Drawn Testimony

sketching a generation’s most iconic criminal cases

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    18 November 2024

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Summary

Drawn Testimony: Four Decades of Courtroom Art

The trials of criminals who disgust and fascinate the world continue to be depicted primarily by the point of a pencil or the worn-down end of a pastel stub. The odd club of court artists - summoned at the last minute, jostling for position, scrambling to make permanent an event or expression that has already fled the scene - is still charged with providing the pictures the world hungers to see, and depicting the faces it demands to kno…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781786584373
ISBN-10:1786584379
Author:Jane Rosenberg
Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd
Imprint:Manilla Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:18 November 2024
Weight:346g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm x 19mm
About The Author

Jane Rosenberg

Jane Rosenberg received a BA in Art from SUNY Buffalo and trained in New York City at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Art. A courtroom sketch artist for major television networks and newspapers since 1980, her work has also appeared in collections throughout the US and abroad, including the National Constitution Center, the Museum of Television and Radio, the National September 11 Memorial Museum and the Library of Congress. In 2023, her drawing of former President Donald Trump became the first courtroom sketch to be featured on the cover of The New Yorker in the magazine’s 98-year history.

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