{"product_id":"9781786584373-drawn-testimony-sketching-a-generations-most-iconic-criminal-cases","title":"Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation's most iconic criminal cases","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe trials of criminals who disgust and fascinate the world in   equal measure continue to be depicted primarily not at the push of a button   but the point of a pencil or the worn-down end of a pastel stub. It is the odd,   bickering club of court artists - summoned at the last minute, jostling for   position, scrambling to make permanent an event or expression that has   already fled the scene - that is still charged with providing the pictures   the world hungers to see, and depicting the faces it demands to know. Jane   Rosenberg has been a courtroom artist in New York for over 40 years. In her   time on her benches, her pastels have captured some of the most notorious   faces spanning multiple criminal eras: the Mafia crackdown of the 1980s and   1990s, the fallen titans of Wall Street's 'greed is good' decade, the sex   abusers brought to account by the #MeToo movement, the police brutality   spotlighted by Black Lives Matter, and the relentless infighting of   Trumpworld. But whilst the   cases and the many recognisable names might suggest this to be a true crime   goldmine, this, it is not. Instead Jane offers the reader something entirely   new - rather than focusing on the facts and minutiae of a case as it unfolds,   we are instead given a moving and discerning view of a courtroom and its   cast, focusing on emotion above procedure; rather than analysis of evidence,   we are presented with the barely perceptible shifts in a defendant's body   language, the absence or abundance of feeling in their expression. The result   is remarkable and sheds a light on the fascinating career which, arguably   against the odds, has managed to stand the test of time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48498634490075,"sku":"9781786584373","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/72d6de55-7ce6-4b18-84cb-8586d9caf022.jpg?v=1774089564","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781786584373-drawn-testimony-sketching-a-generations-most-iconic-criminal-cases","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}