Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design

Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl is a rare gem at the intersection of lust for literature and lust for design." --Maria Popova, Brain Pickings. The book's centerpiece is the Lolita Book Cover Project, for which the co-editor John Bertram, an architect based in Los Angeles, commissioned designers to create new covers for the book." --The New Yorker"Gorgeous" --BuzzFeed"Stunning" --The Huffington Post"The book presents the most exhaustive and dimensional topography of Lolita's cultural landscape examined through the lens of design and visual communication. Lolita--The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design challenges this prevailing misrepresentation with essays by book designers, artists, and

What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. You'll never look at Lolita the same way again.. 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. 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 i

"Five Stars" according to Lisa M Pavlik. A very interesting book.. javel saudades said Reading Nabokov!. Fabulous book!. and a lolita obsessed dude this book is very cool. Kyle as a design studentand a lolita obsessed dude this book is very cool.