Parsons The New School for Design will present a symposium focused on how the current cultural climate is affecting the field of illustration. Illustration in the Age of Anxiety will take place on November 10 at The New School, 55 West 13 Street, at 3pm, and is free and open to the public.
"Illustration in the Age of Anxiety looks at how illustration handles times of unease and anxiety in our culture, from the atomic anxiety of the 1950s to today's wars and upheaval," said Parsons Illustration Chair Steven Guarnaccia. "We hope to explore the influence culture and society imposes on our field, and the visual representation of that influence."
Illustration in the Age of Anxiety will feature three conversations lead by prominent and accomplished writers and illustrators. "Shaky Line, Shaky Times" will feature master satirical illustrators Ed Koren and Ed Sorel in conversation with Parsons' Illustration Associate Professor Dan Nadel who will discuss their famously anxious drawing styles and nearly half century's worth of drawings for hundreds of books and publications. "Reading in Public" will feature MacArthur-award winning graphic novelist Ben Katchor, who joined Parsons as a full time faculty member this fall, as he discusses the difficulties of reading in an uncertain time. Pop-gothic artists Camille Rose Garcia and Tara McPherson will talk to Guarnaccia about drawing on the dark side of life in the final session of the symposium, "A Light in the Dark" in which pop-gothic artists Camille Rose Garcia and Tara McPherson will talk to Steven Guarnaccia about drawing on the dark side of life.
