RARE AMERICANA 11 ISSUES 1932 - 33 Illustrator Georg Grosz, H. V Baer Et Al.
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:686597 | Publication Name: Americana |
| Language: English | Format: Physical |
| Year Published: 1932 | Subject: Humor & Satire |
| Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated |
These magazines are extremly rare and little information is available online about them ;l
i have gleaned the following information from another online auction [ 7 issues in questionable condition sold for 300$ ]
Alexander King, editor. 9 x 12 ins., approx.30 pp.each. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white cartoons. Eleven issues of a remarkable, short-lived magazine of utterly irreverent left-wing caricature: Vol. 1, Nos.1-12[missing 11] all magazines are completely i...ntact with only minor damage.
There were only 17 issues of this irreverent journal, beginning in Feb. 1932, with three more issues irregularly appearing by July, then resuming with a new series issued monthly between Nov. 1932 and Nov. 1933. The contributors’ list of both artists and writers is remarkable: Majeska, Orozco, George Grosz, Miguel Covarrubias, Art Young, Percy Crosby, John Sloan, Gilbert Seldes, E.E. Cummings, M.R.Werner, Lynd Ward, Al Hirschfeld, William Steig, James Thurber and Nathanael West.Most of the magazines were taken up with caricatures, but there were also some articles and photographs. No sacred cow was spared – high society grand dames, politicians of all stripes, Blacks and Jews, Gandhi and Einstein, were all fair game for what Gilbert Seldes cheerfully called “unpleasantly sadistic…savagery”. Writing in the issue that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election, Seldes joked, “I will suggest to the editors of Americana that they reform. No more sadism. Only pretty pictures of sweet communists welcoming Trotsky back from exile; sweet capitalists washing the feet of the ten million unemployed, and sweet editors of liberal magazines smiling broadly at love triumphant.”
i have gleaned the following information from another online auction [ 7 issues in questionable condition sold for 300$ ]
Alexander King, editor. 9 x 12 ins., approx.30 pp.each. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white cartoons. Eleven issues of a remarkable, short-lived magazine of utterly irreverent left-wing caricature: Vol. 1, Nos.1-12[missing 11] all magazines are completely i...ntact with only minor damage.
There were only 17 issues of this irreverent journal, beginning in Feb. 1932, with three more issues irregularly appearing by July, then resuming with a new series issued monthly between Nov. 1932 and Nov. 1933. The contributors’ list of both artists and writers is remarkable: Majeska, Orozco, George Grosz, Miguel Covarrubias, Art Young, Percy Crosby, John Sloan, Gilbert Seldes, E.E. Cummings, M.R.Werner, Lynd Ward, Al Hirschfeld, William Steig, James Thurber and Nathanael West.Most of the magazines were taken up with caricatures, but there were also some articles and photographs. No sacred cow was spared – high society grand dames, politicians of all stripes, Blacks and Jews, Gandhi and Einstein, were all fair game for what Gilbert Seldes cheerfully called “unpleasantly sadistic…savagery”. Writing in the issue that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election, Seldes joked, “I will suggest to the editors of Americana that they reform. No more sadism. Only pretty pictures of sweet communists welcoming Trotsky back from exile; sweet capitalists washing the feet of the ten million unemployed, and sweet editors of liberal magazines smiling broadly at love triumphant.”
