Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1440329869 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars A very interesting book.. Reading Nabokov! Fabulous book!. Kyle said and a lolita obsessed dude this book is very cool.. as a design studentand a lolita obsessed dude this book is very cool.
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. 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. "The sexualized vision 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. 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. You'll never look at Lolita the same way again.. What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. You'll also find thoughtful essays from such design luminaries as Mary Gaitskill, Debbie Millman, Michael Bierut, Peter Mendelsund, Jessica Helfand, Alice Twemlow, Johanna Drucker, Leland de la Durantaye, Ellen Pifer, and Stephen Blackwell.Through the lenses of design and literature, Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl tells the strange design his
He is the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal.. He is the principal of Bertram Architects in Los Angeles.Yuri Leving is Professor of Russian Studies at Dalhousie University and the author of numerous books. John Bertram is the editor of Venus Febriculosa, a website devoted to contemporary literature and the art and design of books