Look of the Book

Look of the Book
Peter Mendelsund, David J Alworth
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Hardback
h279 x 216mm - 256pg
1 Oct 2020 US
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9780399581021
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As readers, we' re all guilty of judging a book by its cover. The cover is the outward face of the text--done right, a cover can become iconic, but done wrong, it can definitely send the wrong message. The Look of the Book examines the art of the book cover through notable covers and the stories behind them, interviews with artists and literary luminaries, galleries of the many different jackets of bestselling books, and more. Authored by legendary designer and art director Peter Mendelsund--who has designed iconic covers for authors such as David Sedaris, Stieg Larsson, Yaa Gyasi, Jo Nesb , and Kazuo Ishiguro--and Harvard humanities professor David Alworth, this fascinating inside look at the intersection of culture and commerce challenges our notions of what a book cover can and should be.
Praise for The Look of the Book: "A book about books that deserves a spot in every bibliophile' s collection. "--Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Cover"In the past decade, Mr. Mendelsund has designed about 600 book jackets, ranging from a sober, sophisticated cover for Tolstoy' s War and Peace to his whimsical Pop Art-like treatment of Kafka' s novella Metamorphosis, to the hypnotic fluorescent swirls on Stieg Larsson' s thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. "--New York Times"Cover is foremost a visually enticing tour of some of the most important books of recent times, made even more memorable by Mendelsund' s daring covers. "--Washington Post Praise for What We See When We Read"A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images. "--Alexandra Alter, New York Times"Mendelsund, throughout this thought-provoking book, helps the lay reader contemplate text in ways you hadn' t thought about previously. "--Los Angeles Times"A welcome and fascinating new book. "--New York Review of Books
Peter Mendelsund is the former art director at Alfred A. Knopf, the creative director of The Atlantic, and the author of a design monograph called Cover, as well as What We See When We Read, which has been translated into fourteen languages, and the novel Same Same. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, and other magazines. David J. Alworth is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He teaches and writes about modern and contemporary literature, media, art, and design. He is the author of Site Reading- Fiction, Art, Social Form and his essays have appeared in Public Books and the Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as in various scholarly journals.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780399581021
Published: 1 Oct 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Ten Speed Press
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 279mm
Width: 216mm
Pages: 256

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