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⚫ '''Istvan Banyai''' (born in Budapest, Hungary, February 27, 1949) gained prominence as a commercial ] and ] in the mid-1980s when he emigrated to the United States. In 1995 Banyai produced his first wordless children's book, the masterful "Zoom." Honored as one of the best children's books of the year by the New York Times and Publishers Weekly, "Zoom" was soon published in 18 languages. With increasing complexity and conceptual originality, he went on to author four more books and illustrate many more in collaboration with other writers and poets. "It's refreshing to encounter a group of virtually wordless books that invite children to consider their world from a point of view they may not have otherwise considered. The most stunning is "Zoom," written -- or, rather, imagined and then illustrated -- by Istvan Banyai." <ref>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E4D61439F931A25752C1A963958260</ref>
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'''Istvan Banyai''' (27 February 1949 – 15 December 2022) was a Hungarian illustrator and animator. He was born in suburban Budapest and received his BFA from ].<ref name = Williams>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/arts/istvan-banyai-dead.html|title = Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73|newspaper = ]|last = Williams|first = Alex|date = 18 February 2023|accessdate = 19 February 2023|url-access = limited}}</ref> He moved to France in 1973, then to the United States in 1981.<ref name = Williams/>


⚫ In 1995, Banyai produced his first wordless children's book, ''Zoom''.<ref name = Williams/> Honored as one of the best children's books of the year by '']'' and '']'', ''Zoom'' was soon published in 18 languages. {{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} He went on to author four more books and illustrate many more in collaboration with other writers and poets. "It's refreshing to encounter a group of virtually wordless books that invite children to consider their world from a point of view they may not have otherwise considered. The most stunning is ''Zoom,'' written—or, rather, imagined and then illustrated—by Istvan Banyai."<ref>{{cite news|author=Patricia McCormick |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E4D61439F931A25752C1A963958260 |title=All Things Reconsidered |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 November 1995 |accessdate=27 June 2014}}</ref>
While he continues to produced commercial illustration for publication such as The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Time and Atlantic Monthly; cover art for Sony and Verve Records; and animated short films for Nickelodeon and MTV Europe, he is internationally respected for his unique philosophical and iconoclastic vision, thus transcending the status of commercial illustrator to gifted artist. Banyai describes his art as "an organic combination of turn-of-the-century Viennese retro, interjected with American pop, some European absurdity added for flavor, served on a cartoon-style color palette... no social realism added."


Banyai also produced illustrations for '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']''; cover art for ] and ]; and animated short films for ] and ]. He described his art as "an organic combination of turn-of-the-century Viennese retro, interjected with American pop, some European absurdity added for flavor, served on a cartoon-style color palette... no social realism added."<ref>{{cite web|author=|url=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Minus-Equals-Plus/Istvan-Banyai/e/9780810929906 |title=Minus Equals Plus by Istvan Banyai &#124; 9780810929906 &#124; Paperback &#124; Barnes & Noble |publisher=Search.barnesandnoble.com |date= |accessdate=27 June 2014}}</ref>
From Budapest to Paris, Los Angeles to Manhattan ("No illustrator surpasses Istvan Banyai at portraying the dream lives of today's New York and Los Angeles hip urban style-setters.") <ref>http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Minus-Equals-Plus/Istvan-Banyai/e/9780810929906</ref>he now lives with his wife in the woods of Connecticut among deer and flowers.
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⚫ ==Books==


Having moved from Budapest to live in Paris, Los Angeles, and New York, Banyai later lived in rural Connecticut. He and his wife, Kati, had a son. Banyai died from lung cancer at a hospital in ], on 15 December 2022, at the age of 73.<ref name = Williams/>
⚫ Banyai, Istvan. ''Zoom'' (New York:Viking, 1995)


⚫ == Books ==
⚫ ____''Re-Zoom'' (New York:Penguin Group, 1998)


____''REM: Rapid Eye Movement'' (New York:Viking, 1998) *''Zoom'' (New York: Viking, 1995)
⚫ *''Re-Zoom'' (New York: Penguin Group, 1998)
⚫ *''REM: Rapid Eye Movement'' (New York: Viking, 1998)
⚫ *Delzell, Tom. ''The Slang of Sin'' (Merriam Webster, 1998)
⚫ *Sandburg, Carl. ''Poems for Children: Nowhere near Old Enough to Vote'' (Random House, 1999)
⚫ *''Minus Equals Plus'' introduction by Kurt Andersen (New York: Abrams, 2001)
⚫ *''The Other Side'' (Chronicle Books, 2005)
*Wiedemann, Julius, ed.''Illustration Now!'' (Köln: ], 2005)
⚫ *Park, Linda Sue. ''Tap Dancing on the Roof'' (Clarion Books, 2007


⚫ == Awards ==
⚫ ____''Minus Equals Plus'' with introduction by Kurt Anderson (New York:Abrams, 2001)
*Ten Best Books of the Year, New York Times Book Review,1995
*International Reading Association (IRA) Children's Choices Award,1997<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_childrens.html |title=Welcome to the International Reading Association |publisher=Reading.org |date=18 March 2014 |accessdate=27 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224041910/http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices_childrens.html |archivedate=24 February 2009 }}</ref>
*Publishers's Weekly, Best Books, 1995
*American Illustration Cover, No18, November 1999
*"Professor Emeritus", Moholy Nagy Academy of Art, Budapest, 2005
*The Society of illustrators, Best illustrated childrenbook, "The Other Side", Gold Medal, 2007
*3x3, magazine of contemporary illustration, Silver Medal, 2008
*Notable Children’s Books, Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=2562497 |title=Notable Children's Books: 2008 |publisher=Booklist Online |date=1 March 2008 |accessdate=27 June 2014}}</ref>


==Articles==
⚫ ____''The Other Side'' (Chronicle Books, 2005)
*Mark Vallen, "Illustrating War," Foreign Policy in Focus, 18 March 2009<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080909204632/http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5077 |date=9 September 2008 }}</ref>

*Patricia McCormick, "All Things Considered" 12 November 1995, ''The New York Times''<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E4D61439F931A25752C1A963958260 | title=All Things Reconsidered | newspaper=The New York Times | date=12 November 1995 | last1=McCormick | first1=Patricia }}</ref>
⚫ ___ Sandburg, Carl. ''Poems for Children: Nowhere near Old Enough to Vote'' (Random House, 19 )
*Sean Kelly, "Spring Children's Books: Stuff and Nonsense" 16 May 1999, ''The New York Times''<ref>{{cite news|author=Sean Kelly |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00EED8103CF935A25756C0A96F958260&scp=3&sq=Best%20ten%20books%20banyai&st=cse |title=Spring Children's Books; Stuff and Nonsense |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 May 1999 |accessdate=27 June 2014}}</ref>

*School Library Journal<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6297234.html?q=istvan+banyai|title = Library Journal}}</ref>
⚫ ____Park, Linda Sue. ''Tap Dancing on the Roof'' (Clarion Books, 19 )
*Step Inside Design<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28737/0/page/8/ |title=STEP Design 100 Annual 2007: Editorial |date=16 July 2011 |accessdate=27 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415151014/http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28737/0/page/8/ |archivedate=15 April 2012 }}</ref>

*"Hungary: an open book"<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818114656/http://www.ibby.hu/im/bologna2006_konyvek.pdf |date=18 August 2007 }}</ref>
⚫ ___ Delzell, Tom. ''The Slang of Sin'' (Merriam Webster, 20 )


⚫ == Awards ==
Childrens Choice Award for Zoom (Penguin, 1997.)


==Exhibitions==
⚫ =References=
*"Stranger in a Strange Land", Retrospective solo exhibition in the Norman Rockwell Museum, Massachusetts, 2013.<ref>{{cite web |author=JClowe |url=http://www.nrm.org/2012/11/istvan-banyai-stranger-in-a-strange-land/ |title=Istvan Banyai: Stranger in a Strange Land &#124; Norman Rockwell MuseumNorman Rockwell Museum |publisher=Nrm.org |date=25 November 2012 |accessdate=27 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424034950/http://www.nrm.org/2012/11/istvan-banyai-stranger-in-a-strange-land/ |archive-date=24 April 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*"Artists Against The War," Society of Illustrators, New York, January 2008
*"Illuminare" Design Week Budapest. Hungary, 2005
*Wordless book Festival, Kyoto, Japan, 2005
*“America Illustrated” or the Best Contemporary American Illustrators, Teatrio association together with the Italian Foreign Affairs Department and the Embassy of the United States of America. Catalogue Cover Art, Published by Associazione Culturale Teatrio. Italy, 2000
*Eastern European illustrators for ''The New York Times'' "Op-Ed". SVA, New York, 1998


⚫ ==References==
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Istvan Banyai (27 February 1949 – 15 December 2022) was a Hungarian illustrator and animator. He was born in suburban Budapest and received his BFA from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. He moved to France in 1973, then to the United States in 1981.

In 1995, Banyai produced his first wordless children's book, Zoom. Honored as one of the best children's books of the year by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, Zoom was soon published in 18 languages. He went on to author four more books and illustrate many more in collaboration with other writers and poets. "It's refreshing to encounter a group of virtually wordless books that invite children to consider their world from a point of view they may not have otherwise considered. The most stunning is Zoom, written—or, rather, imagined and then illustrated—by Istvan Banyai."

Banyai also produced illustrations for The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Time and The Atlantic Monthly; cover art for Sony and Verve Records; and animated short films for Nickelodeon and MTV Europe. He described his art as "an organic combination of turn-of-the-century Viennese retro, interjected with American pop, some European absurdity added for flavor, served on a cartoon-style color palette... no social realism added."

Having moved from Budapest to live in Paris, Los Angeles, and New York, Banyai later lived in rural Connecticut. He and his wife, Kati, had a son. Banyai died from lung cancer at a hospital in West Harrison, New York, on 15 December 2022, at the age of 73.

Books

  • Zoom (New York: Viking, 1995)
  • Re-Zoom (New York: Penguin Group, 1998)
  • REM: Rapid Eye Movement (New York: Viking, 1998)
  • Delzell, Tom. The Slang of Sin (Merriam Webster, 1998)
  • Sandburg, Carl. Poems for Children: Nowhere near Old Enough to Vote (Random House, 1999)
  • Minus Equals Plus introduction by Kurt Andersen (New York: Abrams, 2001)
  • The Other Side (Chronicle Books, 2005)
  • Wiedemann, Julius, ed.Illustration Now! (Köln: Taschen, 2005)
  • Park, Linda Sue. Tap Dancing on the Roof (Clarion Books, 2007

Awards

  • Ten Best Books of the Year, New York Times Book Review,1995
  • International Reading Association (IRA) Children's Choices Award,1997
  • Publishers's Weekly, Best Books, 1995
  • American Illustration Cover, No18, November 1999
  • "Professor Emeritus", Moholy Nagy Academy of Art, Budapest, 2005
  • The Society of illustrators, Best illustrated childrenbook, "The Other Side", Gold Medal, 2007
  • 3x3, magazine of contemporary illustration, Silver Medal, 2008
  • Notable Children’s Books, Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children.

Articles

  • Mark Vallen, "Illustrating War," Foreign Policy in Focus, 18 March 2009
  • Patricia McCormick, "All Things Considered" 12 November 1995, The New York Times
  • Sean Kelly, "Spring Children's Books: Stuff and Nonsense" 16 May 1999, The New York Times
  • School Library Journal
  • Step Inside Design
  • "Hungary: an open book"

Exhibitions

  • "Stranger in a Strange Land", Retrospective solo exhibition in the Norman Rockwell Museum, Massachusetts, 2013.
  • "Artists Against The War," Society of Illustrators, New York, January 2008
  • "Illuminare" Design Week Budapest. Hungary, 2005
  • Wordless book Festival, Kyoto, Japan, 2005
  • “America Illustrated” or the Best Contemporary American Illustrators, Teatrio association together with the Italian Foreign Affairs Department and the Embassy of the United States of America. Catalogue Cover Art, Published by Associazione Culturale Teatrio. Italy, 2000
  • Eastern European illustrators for The New York Times "Op-Ed". SVA, New York, 1998

References

  1. ^ Williams, Alex (18 February 2023). "Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  2. Patricia McCormick (12 November 1995). "All Things Reconsidered". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  3. "Minus Equals Plus by Istvan Banyai | 9780810929906 | Paperback | Barnes & Noble". Search.barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  4. "Welcome to the International Reading Association". Reading.org. 18 March 2014. Archived from the original on 24 February 2009. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  5. Notable Children's Books: 2008. Booklist Online. 1 March 2008. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  6. Archived 9 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  7. McCormick, Patricia (12 November 1995). "All Things Reconsidered". The New York Times.
  8. Sean Kelly (16 May 1999). "Spring Children's Books; Stuff and Nonsense". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  9. "Library Journal".
  10. "STEP Design 100 Annual 2007: Editorial". 16 July 2011. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  11. Archived 18 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  12. JClowe (25 November 2012). "Istvan Banyai: Stranger in a Strange Land | Norman Rockwell MuseumNorman Rockwell Museum". Nrm.org. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
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