The Accidental Objectivist: Nick Gaetano
December 7, 2011
In 1981, a commission to design the 25th anniversary cover of Russian-born novelist and pop philosopher Ayn Rand’s collected works—ten books in all—was a welcome commission for the 37-year-old artist and illustrator Nick Gaetano. He had no idea that his illustrations, bold, heroic art-deco figures and images, would transcend mere covers, that they would forever intertwine Rand’s ideologies and his own.