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Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

Door Ingrid Schaffner

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#334631-KM28
Titel
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
Auteur
Schaffner, Ingrid
Boektype
Gebonden
Uitgeverij
Munich etc. : Prestel Verlag
Jaar van uitgave
2010
ISBN10
3791350358
ISBN13
9783791350356
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original half cloth, numerous (full page) colour, (including photographs), 4to.
Samenvatting
For decades Maria Kalman has delighted us with her whimsical illustrations and engaged us with her trenchant observations. To young readers, she is the author and illustrator of beloved books about Max the dog. To her adult devotees, she is the creator of memorable covers for The New Yorker, two online columns for The New York Times, and an illustrated edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. And to design aficionados, she is the vision behind watches conceived with her late husband, Tibor Kalman, and fabrics for Maharam and Isaac Mizrahi.

This first monograph on the artist features paintings, drawings, embroideries, and other works. Essays by Ingrid Schaffner, Donna Ghelerter, Stamatina Gregory, and Kenneth E. Silver explore Kalman's unique gift for distilling the extraordi... (Lees verder)nary from the ordinary. An installation of her "many tables of many things," which displays an eclectic array of objects and ephemera, reveals Kalman as a collector, commentator, traveler, and maker of lists. And a chronology---annotated by the artist---lists publications, projects, exhibitions, and events. Kalman says, "I want everything I do to be connected in an absurd, funny way." This book celebrates her artistic practice with that same joyful spirit.
Pagina's
144
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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