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Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9781440329869
- Book Title
- Lolita-Story of a Cover Girl : Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Print
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Design, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Reference, Book, Graphic Arts / General
- Item Width
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life, from fashion to film. Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design reconsiders the cover of Lolita . Eighty renowned graphic designers and illustrators (including Paula Scher, Jessica Hische, Jessica Helfand, and Peter Mendelsund) offer their own takes on the book's jacket, while graphic-design critics and Nabokov scholars survey more than half a century of Lolita covers. Through the lenses of design and literature, Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl tells the strange design history of one of the most important novels of the 20th century--and offers a new way for thinking visually about difficult books. You'll never look at Lolita the same way again.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Print
ISBN-10
1440329869
ISBN-13
9781440329869
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143960143
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lolita-Story of a Cover Girl : Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Reference, Book, Graphic Arts / General
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Design, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
9in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nc973
Reviews
"The sexualized vision of Lolita perpetuated by popular culture has very little to do with the text of Nabokov's novel, in which Lolita is not a teen-aged seductress but a sexually abused twelve-year-old girl. Lolita--The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design challenges this prevailing misrepresentation with essays by book designers, artists, and Nabokov scholars, and a preface by Mary Gaitskill that considers the problem of capturing Nabokov's psychologically complex story in a single image. The book's centerpiece is the Lolita Book Cover Project, for which the co-editor John Bertram, an architect based in Los Angeles, commissioned designers to create new covers for the book." -- The New Yorker, "The sexualized vision of Lolita perpetuated by popular culture has very little to do with the text of Nabokov's novel, in which Lolita is not a teen-aged seductress but a sexually abused twelve-year-old girl. Lolita--The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design challenges this prevailing misrepresentation with essays by book designers, artists, and Nabokov scholars, and a preface by Mary Gaitskill that considers the problem of capturing Nabokov's psychologically complex story in a single image. The book's centerpiece is the Lolita Book Cover Project, for which the co-editor John Bertram, an architect based in Los Angeles, commissioned designers to create new covers for the book." -- The New Yorker "Gorgeous" -- BuzzFeed "Stunning" -- The Huffington Post "The book presents the most exhaustive and dimensional topography of Lolita 's cultural landscape examined through the lens of design and visual communication.... Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl is a rare gem at the intersection of lust for literature and lust for design." --Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2013-404706
Dewey Decimal
741.64
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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