Horizon (U.S. magazine)
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Horizon was a magazine published in the United States
from 1958 to 1989. Originally published by American Heritage
as a bi-monthly hardback, Horizon was subtitled A Magazine of the Arts. In 1978 Boone Inc. bought the magazine, which continued to cover the arts. Publication ceased in March 1989.
, Jr., with James Parton as publisher. Contributors in the early years included architectural critic Allan Temko
; art critic Russell Lynes
, biologist Julian Huxley
; composers Igor Stravinsky
and Leonard B. Meyer
; drama critic Robert Brustein
; economist John Kenneth Galbraith
; filmmaker Ingmar Bergman
; historians Hugh Trevor-Roper and J.H. Plumb; journalist Fernand Auberjonois
; literary critic Carlos Baker
; novelists Anthony Burgess
and Jean Stafford
; poet Frank O'Hara
; screenwriter D. M. Marshman, Jr.
, travel writer Freya Stark
; and essayists Lesley Blanch
, Geoffrey Grigson
, Gilbert Highet
, Walter Karp
, Raymond Postgate
, Francis Steegmuller and Irving Stone
.
While Horizon remained bimonthly to volume IV, July, 1962, there was an anomalous volume V that had eight issues. After September, 1962, there were only four issues a year, and the magazine changed its issue dates to the current season rather than a month. This is shown in Linda Prestwidge's master table of contents for hard cover Horizon issues in the reference link below. From Winter, 1964, volume VI to January, 1972, volume XIX, Horizon produced four issues a year which are still prized by collectors and actively traded on the internet. Link label
The May, 1977, issue contained an insert from the publisher, Rhett Austell, informing the subscribers that Horizon would become a monthly magazine in soft cover. The reason was plainly financial. Horizon was not able to attract enough subscribers to maintain the luxury magazine devoted to the arts and history that had been envisioned by Joseph Thorndike and James Parton. Austell referred in this insert to "a time of inflationary prices" and announced that Otto Fuerbringer
, a former editor at Time magazine, had been hired as editor of Horizon. There was an editorial in this issue describing the changes in the quality of the printing, binding, and content imposed by the shorter time between issues. The July, 1977, issue, volume XIX number 4, had another insert from the publisher confirming that this would be the last hard cover issue. The response from the subscribers to the lower quality of printing and binding and a new emphasis on current events was overwhelmingly negative, resulting in the sale of Horizon to Boone, Inc. a year later.
American Heritage also published books under the Horizon name, such as 1961's Horizon Book of the Renaissance, edited by Richard M. Ketchum and written by Plumb, with contributors including Trevor-Roper, Kenneth Clark
, Iris Origo
and Jacob Bronowski
. .
to Tuscaloosa, Alabama
in December 1978. The new owner was Boone Inc., with editor and publisher Gray D. Boone. Contributors included Robert Joffrey
, Alan Rich
, Lanford Wilson
, Ray Bradbury
and Brendan Gill
. Publication ceased eleven years later, with volume 32, number 2, March/April 1989.
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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
from 1958 to 1989. Originally published by American Heritage
American Heritage (magazine)
American Heritage is a quarterly magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership. Until 2007, the magazine was published by Forbes. Since that time, Edwin S...
as a bi-monthly hardback, Horizon was subtitled A Magazine of the Arts. In 1978 Boone Inc. bought the magazine, which continued to cover the arts. Publication ceased in March 1989.
American Heritage years
The history magazine and book publisher American Heritage began Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts as a hardback bi-monthly in September 1958. The editor was Joseph J. ThorndikeJoseph J. Thorndike
Joseph Jacobs Thorndike was an American editor and writer. He was Managing Editor of Life for three years in the late 1940s, and a co-founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines....
, Jr., with James Parton as publisher. Contributors in the early years included architectural critic Allan Temko
Allan Temko
Allan Bernard Temko was a Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic and writer based in San Francisco.Born in New York City and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey, Temko served as a U.S...
; art critic Russell Lynes
Russell Lynes
Russell Lynes December 2, 1910 – September 14, 1991) was an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine....
, biologist Julian Huxley
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis...
; composers Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
and Leonard B. Meyer
Leonard B. Meyer
Leonard B. Meyer was a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in Music, and compositional analysis.-Career:...
; drama critic Robert Brustein
Robert Brustein
Robert Sanford Brustein is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright and educator. He founded both Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains a Creative Consultant, and has been the theatre critic for...
; economist John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism...
; filmmaker Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
; historians Hugh Trevor-Roper and J.H. Plumb; journalist Fernand Auberjonois
Fernand Auberjonois
Fernand Auberjonois was a highly respected journalist who worked as the foreign correspondent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade. Throughout most of the Cold War, Auberjonois was one of the most admired American reporters based in London...
; literary critic Carlos Baker
Carlos Baker
Carlos Baker was an American writer, biographer and former Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton respectively. Baker's published works included several novels and books of poetry and various literary...
; novelists Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
John Burgess Wilson – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...
and Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970....
; poet Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara
Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet and art critic. He was a member of the New York School of poetry.-Life:...
; screenwriter D. M. Marshman, Jr.
D. M. Marshman, Jr.
D.M. Marshman, Jr. born December 21, 1922, is an American screenwriter known mainly for his contribution to the film script for Sunset Boulevard.Marshman was educated at Andover and Yale, receiving his B.A. in 1945...
, travel writer Freya Stark
Freya Stark
Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs. Perowne, DBE was a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels, which were mainly in Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan....
; and essayists Lesley Blanch
Lesley Blanch
Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL was an English writer, fashion editor and writer of history....
, Geoffrey Grigson
Geoffrey Grigson
Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson was a British writer. He was born in Pelynt, a village near Looe in Cornwall.-Life:...
, Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Arthur Highet was a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian....
, Walter Karp
Walter Karp
Walter Karp was an American journalist, historian, and writer published in magazines such as American Heritage and Horizon, and also was a contributing editor for Harper's magazine , which re-published some of his political history books in 2003...
, Raymond Postgate
Raymond Postgate
Raymond William Postgate was an English socialist, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist and gourmet.-Early life:...
, Francis Steegmuller and Irving Stone
Irving Stone
Irving Stone was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities, including Lust for Life, a biographical novel about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel about Michelangelo.-Biography:In...
.
While Horizon remained bimonthly to volume IV, July, 1962, there was an anomalous volume V that had eight issues. After September, 1962, there were only four issues a year, and the magazine changed its issue dates to the current season rather than a month. This is shown in Linda Prestwidge's master table of contents for hard cover Horizon issues in the reference link below. From Winter, 1964, volume VI to January, 1972, volume XIX, Horizon produced four issues a year which are still prized by collectors and actively traded on the internet. Link label
The May, 1977, issue contained an insert from the publisher, Rhett Austell, informing the subscribers that Horizon would become a monthly magazine in soft cover. The reason was plainly financial. Horizon was not able to attract enough subscribers to maintain the luxury magazine devoted to the arts and history that had been envisioned by Joseph Thorndike and James Parton. Austell referred in this insert to "a time of inflationary prices" and announced that Otto Fuerbringer
Otto Fuerbringer
Otto Fuerbringer was an editor for the American news magazine Time.Fuerbringer was born in St. Louis, to Ludwig and Anna Zucker Fuerbringer. He was the youngest of five children. As a student at Harvard, he edited the student newspaper The Harvard Crimson.After graduating in 1932, he started...
, a former editor at Time magazine, had been hired as editor of Horizon. There was an editorial in this issue describing the changes in the quality of the printing, binding, and content imposed by the shorter time between issues. The July, 1977, issue, volume XIX number 4, had another insert from the publisher confirming that this would be the last hard cover issue. The response from the subscribers to the lower quality of printing and binding and a new emphasis on current events was overwhelmingly negative, resulting in the sale of Horizon to Boone, Inc. a year later.
American Heritage also published books under the Horizon name, such as 1961's Horizon Book of the Renaissance, edited by Richard M. Ketchum and written by Plumb, with contributors including Trevor-Roper, Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark
Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation...
, Iris Origo
Iris Origo
Dame Iris Margaret Origo, Marchesa of Val d'Orcia, DBE , née Cutting, was an Anglo-Irish writer, who devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce, near Montepulciano, which she purchased with her husband in the 1920s.-Origins and upbringing:Origo was the daughter of...
and Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor...
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Boone years
Horizon moved from New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
to Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west central Alabama . Located on the Black Warrior River, it is the fifth-largest city in Alabama, with a population of 90,468 in 2010...
in December 1978. The new owner was Boone Inc., with editor and publisher Gray D. Boone. Contributors included Robert Joffrey
Robert Joffrey
Robert Joffrey was an American dancer, teacher, producer and choreographer, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets...
, Alan Rich
Alan Rich
Alan Rich was an American music critic who served on the staff of many newspapers and magazines on both coasts. Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, he first studied medicine at Harvard University before turning to music...
, Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson was an American playwright who helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
, Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
and Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine.-Biography:...
. Publication ceased eleven years later, with volume 32, number 2, March/April 1989.