Background
Boris Artzybasheff was born on 25 May in 1899, in Kharkov, Ukraine.
(A striking collection of extraordinary images from one of...)
A striking collection of extraordinary images from one of the twentieth centurys most acclaimed and unique American artists. This fantastical collection teems with ironic imagery which documents our cultures vanity, aggression, dreams, and neuroses with biting wit and wisdom. Boris Artzybasheffs striking graphic style, which includes everything from grotesque experiments in anthropomorphism, to the depiction of vivid and extreme ranges of human psychology and emotion, is displayed to full effect in this seminal collection of his work. A stunning collection from an artist with a strong sense of design and humour!
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Boris Artzybasheff was born on 25 May in 1899, in Kharkov, Ukraine.
Pupil Prince Tenishev, St. Petersburg, 1909-1918.
In 1919 Boris emigrated to the United States, where he worked first in an engraving plant and later as a draftsman and cartoonist. In time he acquired a reputation as an advertising artist and illustrator for books and periodicals. Artzybasheff's work, always a model of meticulous draftsmanship, ranged from gentle animal illustrations prepared for such children's books as his Aesop's Fables (1933) to the bizarre fantasy of his numerous covers for Time magazine. He was perhaps at his best in his renderings of machines, which he whimsically endowed with faces, limbs, and personalities. A frequent theme was the diminution of man by the uncanny products of his ingenuity: giant computers that wildly spew endless yards of punched tape from gaping mouths; orbiting satellites that leer smugly. Many such drawings appear in As I See (1955). Artzybasheff died in Lyme, Connecticut, July 16, 1965.
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(Classic illustrated children's story.)
(Droll Stories. Hardcover.)
Served in Ukrainian Army, 1918-1919. Member Institute Graphic Arts, Society Illustrators. Fellow Royal Society Arts, London.
Member Greek Orthodox Church. Club: Grolier, Century.
Boris Artzybasheff married to Elisabeth Southard Snyder on 22 February in 1930.