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Lolita : the story of a cover girl : Vladimir Nabokov's novel in art and design

Author: John Bertram; I︠U︡riĭ Leving
Publisher: Blue Ash, Ohio : Print Books, 2013. ©2013
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Illustrations
Named Person: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov; Vladimir V Nabokov; Lolita, Literarische Gestalt.
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Bertram; I︠U︡riĭ Leving
ISBN: 9781440329869 1440329869
OCLC Number: 841672492
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 251 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents: Preface: Pictures of Lo / Mary Gaitskill --
Introduction: Colorful misunderstandings, graphic misinterpretations / John Bertram and Yuri Leving --
Questions and answers / John Gall in discussion with John Bertram --
Fictions / Peter Mendelsund --
Reflections on covers commissioned for the Lolita Book Cover Project / Alice Twemlow --
Cover story / Barbara Bloom --
Passion and perception : the visual in the portrayal of Lolita in Nabokov, Kubrick, and Stern / Women's Design + Research Unit: Siân Cook and Teal Triggs --
A gallery of 80 newly commissioned Lolita covers --
Uncovering Lolita / Ellen Pifer --
Dyeing Lolita : nymphet in the paratext / Duncan White --
How to think in images, or Vladimir Nabokov's art of the image / Leland de la Durantaye --
Dolly as cover girl / Dieter E. Zimmer --
Selling concubines : who is the face of the Russian Lolita? / Yuri Leving --
Paperback Nabokov / Paul Maliszewski --
Nabokov and his industry / Stephen H. Blackwell.
Other Titles: Story of a cover girl
Vladimir Nabokov's novel in art and design
Pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sun-burst above a receding road with the light reflected in furrows and ruts, after rain. and no girls
Responsibility: edited by John Bertram and Yuri Leving.

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"The sexualized vision of Lolita perpetuated by popular culture has very little to do with the text of Nabokov's novel, in which Lolita is not a teen-aged seductress but a sexually abused Read more...

 
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