NEW WORLD CONQUEST - 1958
Van Sant was commissioned by Kirk Douglas’s production company to draw the action and actors on the set of his starring vehicle Spartacus (Dir. Stanley Kubrick), which was released in 1960. Van Sant’s drawings were reproduced in an illustrated version of Howard Fast’s eponymous novel and in an illustrated story of the motion picture production. Van Sant received a Golden Brush Award from Illustrators West for this work.
STANLEY KUBRICK DIRECTING, PEN AND INK, C. 1959
VAN SANT DRAWING JEAN SIMMONS, PHOTOGRAPH, C. 1959
TONY CURTIS, PEN AND INK, C. 1959
GLADIATORS, PEN AND INK, C. 1959
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1959
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Various, including pen, ink, wash, and collage on paper.
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Bryna Productions
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TVS digital records
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Starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Lawrence Olivier, and Jean Simmons Spartacus was released on October 6th, 1960. The screenplay was written by Dalton Trumbo, based on the eponymous novel by Howard Fast, and Stanley Kubrick directed.
Notably, Hollywood’s most right-wing element, including gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and actor John Wayne, publicly condemned the film as "Marxist propaganda” [1]. In addition to a storyline that valorized revolution and humanized enslaved people, Trumbo had been a member of the Communist Party and was one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten. Spartacus marked the first time in a decade that he was credited as a screen writer under his own name rather than a pseudonym.
