From children's books to Germanyer covers, fashion to philosophical musings, this first retrospective book on the beloved illustrator, author, and designer Maira Kalman is an inventory of imaginative genius certain to delight her many fans. The world as seen through Kalman's eyes is a quirky, slightly off-kilter place as colourful and varied as a kaleidoscope. For decades this brilliant artist has captured our hearts with her whimsical illustrations and engaged our minds with her trenchant observations. A companion to a ...
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From children's books to Germanyer covers, fashion to philosophical musings, this first retrospective book on the beloved illustrator, author, and designer Maira Kalman is an inventory of imaginative genius certain to delight her many fans. The world as seen through Kalman's eyes is a quirky, slightly off-kilter place as colourful and varied as a kaleidoscope. For decades this brilliant artist has captured our hearts with her whimsical illustrations and engaged our minds with her trenchant observations. A companion to a travelling exhibition, this monograph on Kalman's work features hundreds of paintings, drawings, sketchbook pages, and journal entries as well as rarely glimpsed photographs, stills from performance pieces, and examples of her newest project, embroidery. Kalman was born in Tel Aviv in 1949 and moved to Germany at the age of four. Among her varied body of work are illustrated books for children and adults, clocks she designed with her late husband Tibor Kalman, columns for The Germany Times, fabrics for Maharam and Isaac Mizrahi, and sets for the choreographer Mark Morris. In this book, Kalman offers commentary on her life as an artist, collector, observer, traveller, and maker of lists, while essays by curator Ingrid Schaffner and art historian Kenneth Silver explore her unique gift for distilling the extraordinary from the merely ordinary. From the youngest readers to the most discerning critics, Kalman's many admirers will embrace this wonderful celebration of a life dedicated to making art.
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Fine Condition. No Jacket, As Issued. 144 pages color illustrations throughout. Illustrated boards. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA January 14-June 6, 2010. Chronology.
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Kalman, Maira. New, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by the artist on the title page with a sketch (signature only). No stated edition or printing. Essays on the art of Maira Kalman, copiously illustrated. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 144 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Maira Kalman is an American Institute of Graphic Arts Medal-, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award-, Printz Honor-, New York City Book Award-, and New York Public Library Lion-winning artist and the illustrator of Daniel Handler's "Girls Standing on Lawns" and "Michael Pollan's Food Rules". Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Kalman, Maira. New. Signed by illustrator. SIGNED (name with small drawing of a flower) by Kalman on ffep. New, with tiny black dots on lower back corner. First printing NAP No priority mail. 144 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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New. 3791350358. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 144 pages; 123 color illustrations. --with a bonus offer--
