An early progenitor of the artist''s book genre, Warja Lavater was born in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1913. She worked as an illustrator for the magazine Jeunesse from 1944-1958, and moved to New York shortly thereafter where she began a wonderful series of artist''s books.
These books were published between 1962 and 1971, an exceptionally ripe time for artists to turn to the book form, a time when the most often cited "first" artist''s book also appeared, Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1962) by Ed Ruscha. Many of Lavater''s books were made using the accordion-fold binding.
Her aesthetic has been aptly described as "very clean, very Swiss. " Each book tells a story, sequentially, like traditional books, but varying from them by rarely using words. Instead she chooses a symbol to represent, for example, a character, as in the red dot standing in for Red Riding Hood in Little Red Riding Hood.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
124 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Nieves |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2023-09-01 |
| ISBN |
9783905714241 |
