Book 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 reviewFor 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 TrumpReaders 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.
About the Author
Jane Rosenberg received a degree in fine art from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She became a courtroom artist for major television stations and newspapers covering trials such as John Gotti, Susan Smith, Woody Allen, the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Trial, Michael Skakel, Martha Stewart, WorldCom, and most recently, Donald Trump's arraignment. Her work is seen in collections throughout the US and abroad.
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