{"id":1903,"date":"2009-08-07T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/the-art-of-harvey-kurtzman\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:53:40","slug":"the-art-of-harvey-kurtzman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/07\/the-art-of-harvey-kurtzman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Harvey Kurtzman"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Art of Rebellion<\/h1>\n

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From \u201cThe Art of Harvey Kurtzman\u201d<\/p>\n

More Photos ><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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By STEVEN HELLER<\/p>\n

If not for\u00a0Mad magazine<\/a>, there might never have been (in no particular order) 1960s youth culture, underground comics, Wacky Packs, \u201cLaugh-In,\u201d \u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0R. Crumb<\/a>,\u00a0Art Spiegelman<\/a>\u00a0or an age of irony, period. Mad, which began in 1952 as a comic book that parodied \u201cserious\u201d comics as well as American popular culture, with an emphasis on television, movies and advertising, was conceived and originally edited by Harvey Kurtzman (1924-93), a Brooklyn-born comic-strip artist, writer and editor. Kurtzman was the spiritual father of postwar American satire and the godfather of late-20th-century alternative humor. If this seems like hyperbole, all you have to do is read\u00a0The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics (Abrams Comic Arts, $40)<\/span>, Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle\u2019s insightful, entertaining and profusely illustrated (with rare images of original work) biographical monograph, which chronicles almost everything Kurtzman accomplished \u2014 and that was quite a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Mad and all his subsequent ventures,\u201d the authors write, \u201cKurtzman drew a bead on the phony aspects and idiosyncrasies of modern commercial culture…. He took on Senator Joseph McCarthy as surely and seriously in the pages of Mad as Edward R. Murrow did on television.\u201d He also fought against a wave of comic-art censorship that overtook the country in the \u201950s and fostered the restrictive Comics Code (echoing the role of the Hays Office for motion pictures).<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times The Art of Rebellion From \u201cThe Art of Harvey Kurtzman\u201d More Photos > By STEVEN HELLER If not for\u00a0Mad magazine, there might never have been (in no particular order) 1960s youth culture, underground comics, Wacky Packs, \u201cLaugh-In,\u201d \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d\u00a0R. Crumb,\u00a0Art Spiegelman\u00a0or an age of irony, period. Mad, which began […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}