Drawn Testimony My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist by Jane Rosenberg - Harlequin Trade Publishing | Hanover Square Press

Drawn Testimony My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist  by Jane Rosenberg - Harlequin Trade Publishing | Hanover Square Press

Pub Date Aug 13 2024

Imagina la responsabilidad de capturar la verdad en unos cuantos trazos, ¿es arte? es periodismo? Si me conoces sabes que me encanta el arte, el dibujo, la pintura. Pero el capturar en vivo, en un tiempo limitado y con la necesidad de poner lo que ves y no lo que captas, intuyes o traduces, es decir, siendo ético, ha de ser un reto increíble.

Si alguna vez has visto el boceto de un juicio de alto perfil en las noticias, es muy probable que hayas estado mirando el trabajo de Jane Rosenberg. Drawn Testimony es una ventana fascinante y profundamente humana a un oficio que está desapareciendo: el de artista de tribunales. Me encantaría conocerla! las historias que tendrá (que no ha sido posible capturar en un boceto).

Lo hermoso de este libro es que no se limita a ser un portafolio de sus dibujos más famosos (aunque ver sus trazos de personajes como John Lennon, Mick Jagger o criminales notorios es un deleite). Jane nos lleva detrás de sus binoculares para mostrar lo que significa capturar la tensión, el miedo, la arrogancia o la absoluta desesperación de un ser humano en cuestión de minutos, bajo una presión tremenda. Qué facinante.

Es un libro corto, íntimo y honesto. Rosenberg escribe con la misma precisión con la que dibuja, recordándonos que, más allá de las leyes y los veredictos, los tribunales están llenos de historias humanas crudas. Una lectura atrapante, original y muy visual, perfecta para los amantes del arte, el crimen real y la psicología humana.

Imagine the responsibility of capturing the truth in just a few strokes—is it art? Is it journalism? If you know me, you know I love art, drawing, and painting. But capturing something live, within a limited timeframe, and with the necessity of putting down exactly what you see rather than what you interpret, intuit, or translate—meaning, being completely ethical—must be an incredible challenge.

If you’ve ever seen a sketch of a high-profile trial on the news, odds are you’ve been looking at Jane Rosenberg's work. Drawn Testimony is a fascinating and deeply human window into a disappearing craft: that of the courtroom artist. I would love to meet her! Imagine the stories she must have—the ones that couldn't quite be captured in a sketch.

The beautiful thing about this book is that it isn’t just a portfolio of her most famous drawings (although seeing her sketches of figures like John Lennon, Mick Jagger, or notorious criminals is an absolute treat). Jane takes us behind her binoculars to show what it really means to capture the tension, fear, arrogance, or utter desperation of a human being in a matter of minutes, under tremendous pressure. How fascinating.

It’s a short, intimate, and honest book. Rosenberg writes with the exact same precision she uses to draw, reminding us that beyond the laws and the verdicts, courtrooms are filled with raw human stories. An engrossing, original, and highly visual read, perfect for lovers of art, true crime, and human psychology.

Description

From America’s top courtroom sketch artist, a penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about her dramatic four-decade career


“A mesmerizing look at this rarest of professions…”–Bookpage STARRED review
"Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down.”—Publishers Weekly STARRED review
"Rosenberg’s fascinating debut offers a front row seat to some of the most high-profile criminal cases of the last four decades."—Library Journal STARRED review
"Perceptive, compassionate, and endlessly fascinated by how the human condition is revealed in the courtroom, Rosenberg tells riveting and resonant tales in image and word."—Booklist STARRED review

For over forty years, Jane Rosenberg has been at the heart of the news cycle, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York justice system as a courtroom sketch artist, including the most recent Donald Trump hush money trial.

In Drawn Testimony, Rosenberg brings us into the dramatic high-stakes world of her craft, where art, psychology and courtroom drama collide. Over the course of her legendary career, Jane has had a front-row seat to some of the most iconic and notorious moments in our nation’s recent history, including cases pertaining to:
• Mick Jagger
• Martha Stewart
• Tom Brady's "Deflategate" scandal
• John Lennon’s murder trial 
• Ghislaine Maxwell
• John Gotti
• Harvey Weinstein
• The Boston Marathon bomber
• Donald Trump

Readers will learn how she has honed her unique powers of perception and also what her portraits reveal, not only about her subjects, but about the human condition in general.

Fearless, fascinating and gorgeously written, Drawn Testimony captures the unique career of an artist whose body of work depicts history as it’s happening.

ISBN	9781335008046
PRICE	$30.00 (USD)
PAGES	320