How James Avati created "Tobacco Road"

JAMES AVATI (1912-2005) earned renown as a pre-eminent paperback cover artist in an illustrious 40-year career that began during the paperback revolution of the 1950s. His work helped popularize the literature of Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, Alberto Moravia, Ayn Rand, Louis Bromfield, Robert Penn Warren and many others. Avati's genius lay in evoking emotion -- painting tension, humor, avarice, compassion, suggestiveness, yearning, mischief and a score of other feelings into the faces and postures of characters not more than two inches high.

Excerpt from the documentary "James Avati - A Life in Paperbacks" by Koert Davidse and Piet Schreuders (VPRO television, 2000)
Camera: Ton Peters Sound: Gusta van Eijk

More info in "The Paperback Art of James Avati" by Piet Schreuders and Kenneth Fulton,
ISBN 9781880418710
http://www.amazon.com/Paperback-Art-James-Avati/dp/1880418711
www.jamesavati.com
www.grantbooks.com

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Avati
• paperbacks
• Gallery
• cover
• art
• Schreuders
• Davidse
• Fulton

[ragingbull5150]

whats the song used in the begging?

[railroaded1000]

Great stuff!