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The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature (Hardcover)

By Peter Mendelsund, David J. Alworth

$50.00

ISBN: 9780399581021

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Published: Ten Speed Press - October 6th, 2020

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Cowritten by the most acclaimed designer of book jackets working today, The Look of the Book should be labeled an illicit substance for any and all bibliophiles! Gorgeously designed and sumptuously illustrated, this is a deep dive into history and development of the book jacket, specifically the novel’s. ~ Reviewed by Dafydd Wood

Humans (Hardcover)

By Brandon Stanton

$35.00

ISBN: 9781250114297

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Published: St. Martin's Press - October 6th, 2020

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The photographer who produced the blockbuster, Humans of New York, broadens his mission to a global scale. Images and stories from over forty countries create a rich and rewarding monograph to dip into when you need a little perspective. These simple pictures of average people, aka humans, from all over the world is a welcome and heartening reminder of what we all have in common. ~ Reviewed by Stan Hynds

The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)

By Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt

$30.00

ISBN: 9780358126607

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - October 6th, 2020

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Fans of the podcast 99% Invisible are in for a special treat. Released ten years after Roman Mars first enchanted the podcasting world, this book is an illustrated compendium of the fascinating tidbits he's gathered about the seemingly mundane. Focusing on what makes a city tick, Mars does what he does best, chronicling stories about the hidden design behind everyday objects citywide. Here you'll learn the evolution and humble origins of the water fountain, the purpose and consequence of hostile architecture, the reason Syracuse has the nation's one and only upside-down traffic signal, why some homeowners paint their dying lawns green, how guerilla gardening subverts authority, and why staircases that lead nowhere are named after a former baseball player. ~ Reviewed by Joe Michon-Huneau

Paul Klee: Life and Work (Hardcover)

By Paul Klee (Artist), Michael Baumgartner (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Christine Hopfengart (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

$55.00

ISBN: 9783775747196

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Published: Hatje Cantz - June 30th, 2020

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The definitive monograph on the most personable of modernist painters, Paul Klee: Life and Work, is back in print. This book presents both a biography and the most generous selection of Klee’s tender, magical paintings and drawings. In clear chronological groupings from his association with Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc’s Der Blaue Reiter group, to his core faculty position at the Bauhaus, to his branding as a “degenerate artist” by the Nazis, the full scope of Klee's art and life are methodically presented. I’ve always been enchanted by magical figurative paintings like Fish Magic and The Twittering Machine, but with this book I developed a new appreciation for his distinctly personal brand of abstraction. ~ Reviewed by Dafydd Wood

Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life (Paperback)

By Brigitte Benkemoun, Jody Gladding (Translated by)

$24.95

ISBN: 9781606066591

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Published: Getty Publications - May 19th, 2020

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Finding Dora Maar, a bestseller last year in France and translated lucidly into English by Vermonter Jody Gladding, is a delicious work of biography, memoir, detective narrative and cultural history. Benkemoun bought on eBay a vintage Hermes diary for her husband. When it arrived, she found inside an address book with entries for Cocteau, Chagall, Giacometti, Poulenc, Balthus, Éluard, Breton, Brassaï, Lacan—an exhaustive list of the giants of Parisian modernism. Through some detective work, Benkemoun discovers that its previous owner was none other than Dora Maar, Picasso’s “weeping woman.” In 1920’s Paris Maar was a brilliant young Surrealist photographer before she became Picasso’s official mistress, and her anguished portraits became some of the most recognizable of Picasso’s paintings, forever eclipsing her own efforts in photography and painting. This gripping book charts Dora’s life--the bright beginning of her artistic career, her masochistic relationship with the brilliant and cruel Picasso, and her late reactionary years of seclusion— brilliantly through the entries of her address book forming a constellation of the lives of the Parisian avant garde. ~ Reviewed by Dafydd Wood