![]() The bird adorned the top left hand corner of the magazine’s covers until issue number 27 when the artist Larry Rivers utilized the entire space with his design of a winged helmet the bird, to the regret of some, vanished never to appear again, at least on the magazine’s covers. The symbolism is not difficult: an American eagle is carrying a pen: the French association is denoted by the helmet the bird is wearing-actually a Phrygian hat originally given a slave on his freedom in ancient times and which subsequently became the liberty cap or bonnet rouge worn by the French Revolutionists of the 19th Century. ![]() The Paris Review Eagle, or “the bird” as it was referred to, was designed by William Pène du Bois, the magazine’s art editor, in the spring of 1952. George Plimpton & Norman Mailer Issue 79, Spring 1981
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