What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was 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: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design reconsiders the cover 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. 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 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.
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Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl
Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design
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eBook - ePub
Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl
Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface: Pictures of Lo
- Introduction: Colorful Misunderstandings, Graphic Misinterpretations
- Chapter 1: Questions and Answers
- Chapter 2: Fictions
- Chapter 3: Reflections on Covers Commissioned for the Lolita Book Cover Project
- Chapter 4: Cover Story
- Chapter 5: Passion and Possession: The Visual in the Portrayal of Lolita by Nabokov, Kubrick, and Stern
- Chapter 6: The Covers
- Chapter 7: Uncovering Lolita
- Chapter 8: Dyeing Lolita: Nymphet in the Paratext
- Chapter 9: How to Think in Images, or Vladimir Nabokovās Art of the Image
- Chapter 10: Dolly as Cover Girl
- Chapter 11: Selling Concubines: Who is the Face of the Russian Lolita?
- Chapter 12: Paperback Nabokov
- Chapter 13: Nabokov and His Industry
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
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