Mad Men Uses Illustrator Brian Sanders for Ad Whose Style Contributed to the 60s Look

This is a great story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/arts/television/brian-sanders-creates-mad-men-poster-for-new-season.html?_r=2&

Another article:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/12/mad-men-hires-75-year-old-ad-man-straight-from-the-swinging-60s-for-new-season-campaign/

Brian Sanders' Blog: http://artofbriansanders.blogspot.com/

Interesting Article about Howard Pyle

Interesting article on Salon about Howard Pyle and his influence on how a lot of things in pop culture are still visualized.

Couple good lines: 

"How much do you know about the 19th-century American illustrator whose work left Vincent van Gogh “dumb with admiration”?"

"Sometime around the turn of the century, illustration got written out of the history of art. For lots of reasons: its commercial associations, the advent of photography. Illustration got sidelined as kind of a poor, younger sister to the fine arts. So the premise of the exhibition is to suggest that despite the fact that Howard Pyle is normally only looked at as an illustrator, he was as aware of — and as much a participant in — the art of his time as any of the fine artists."


 http://www.salon.com/2011/11/12/pirates_patriots_and_paladins_the_lush_visions_of_a_master_illustrator/singleton/

Wish I could see the exhibit; but I did see a large collection of his work at the Brandywine a couple of years ago.

Intersting Topic: Illustration Textbook?

This blog entry on Gurney Journey caught my eye: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-is-there-no-illustration-history.html

Why are there no Illustration Textbooks? Why is illustration pretty much left out of art history books? (Especially in coverage of the 20th century?)

What do you all who teach illustration think?