This is what George Lois calls his second “cheesecake cover”
A reference to Truman Capote’s infamous 1966 masked ball when he invited 540 of his closest friends!
Lois created a composite image of the leading four heroes to American college students at the time: Bob Dylan, Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, and Fidel Castro. Their faces were all joined together by the crosshairs of a rifle sight.
For Lois, the cover represented “the moment [Nov. 24, 1963] when an all-American kid started to grow up with live violence in his carpeted den, complete with an all-American hamburger and Coke.”
The slowly growing feminist movement served as an inspiration for the cover. Lois said he wondered, “Was there a point where sexual equality would end and confusion begin?” Many people mistake the actress on this cover with Marilyn Monroe; she’s actually Italian actress Virna Lisi. Marilyn had died almost three years before this picture was taken.
According to Lois, the cover was a swipe at magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. His focus was on showing real versus imagined glamour
Lois’s trompe l’oeil cover of Kennedy in tears was published seven months after the assassination. According to Lois, “…showed the opposite symbolism-of Kennedy himself, crying for his lost destiny.”
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