Maira Kalman : various illuminations (of a crazy world) / Ingrid Schaffner ; with contributions by Donna Ghelerter, Stamatina Gregory, and Kenneth E. Silver.
- Title
- Maira Kalman : various illuminations (of a crazy world) / Ingrid Schaffner ; with contributions by Donna Ghelerter, Stamatina Gregory, and Kenneth E. Silver.
- Published by
- Philadelphia : Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, c2010.
- Author
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- Description
- 144 p. : col. ill.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- This volume presents a survey of the works of American illustrator Maira Kalman (b. 1949). Kalman's works illuminate contemporary life with a profound sense of joy and unique sense of humor. This book was published to accompany the traveling of her paintings, drawings, embroideries, sketchbooks and photographs. Kalman also offers commentary on her life as an artist, collector, observer, traveler, and maker of lists.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Contents
- Exaltations/observations / Ingrid Schaffner -- Marking cloth / Donna Ghelerter -- The contradictoriness of ideas : Maria Kalman's blogging / Stamatina Gregory -- One thing leads to another : Maria Kalman's murals / Kenneth E. Silver -- Works in the exhibition -- Many tables of many things -- Chronology.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- Issued in connection with an exhibition held Jan. 14-June 6, 2010, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and at three other institutions at later dates.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain