Lolita : the story of a cover girl : Vladimir Nabokov's novel in art and design
Bertram, John2013
Book
What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita wa 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: Vladamir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design reconsiders the cover of Lolita. Eighty renowned graphic designers and illustrators 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.
Main title:
Lolita : the story of a cover girl : Vladimir Nabokov's novel in art and design / edited by John Bertram and Yuri Leving.
Author:
Imprint:
Blue Ash, Ohio : Print Books, [2013]
Collation:
251 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Lolita, Art and Design -- 1.Questions and Answers / John Bertram -- 2.Fictions / Peter Mendelsund -- 3.Reflections on Covers Commissioned for the Lolita Book Cover Project / Alice Twemlow -- 4.Cover Story / Barbara Bloom -- 5.Passion and Perception: The Visual in the Portrayal of Lolita in Nabokov, Kubrick, and Stem / Teal Triggs -- pt. II Reinventing Lolita -- 6.A Gallery of 80 Newly Commissioned Lolita Covers -- pt. III Images, Paratexts, and Publishers -- 7.Uncovering Lolita / Ellen Pifer -- 8.Dyeing Lolita: Nymphet in the Paratext / Duncan White -- 9.How to Think in Images, or Vladimir Wabokov's Art of the Image / Leland de la Durantaye -- 10.Dolly as Cover Girl / Dieter E. Zimmer -- 11.LI Selling Concubines: Who Is the Face of the Russian Lolita? / Yuri Leving -- 12.Paperback Nabokov / Paul Maliszewski -- 13.Nabokov and His Industry / Stephen H. Blackwell.
ISBN:
1440329869 (pbk)9781440329869 (pbk)
Dewey class:
741.64
Language:
English
BRN:
181166
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Art and Culture | ARTS 741.64 BERT | Available |