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Product Identifiers

PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press

ISBN-101616890339

ISBN-139781616890339

eBay Product ID (ePID)109070679

Product Key Features

Book TitlePaula Scher: Maps

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicIndividual Artists / General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorPaula Scher

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight54 Oz

Item Length12.2 in

Item Width11.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-012783

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"A lavish, formidable large-format volume collecting 39 of her swirling, colorful cartographic points of view, a beeline addition to my favorite books on maps. Cherry on top: The cover jacket folds out into her legendary colorful map of the world. Artful and opinionated, MAPS is a beautiful antidote to the sterile objectivity of location-aware apps and devices...shining with Scher's own distinct, quirky, visionary voice." -- Brain Pickings, "The colorful, annotated paintings collected in Paula Scher MAPS offer a world informed by the graphic designer's poignant and incisive commentary." - Travel + Leisure, "If you are looking for good books on interior design theory, the pickings are quite slim. Lois Weinthal's massive 648-page reader redresses this with a carefully curated collection of 48 essays, with texts by Wim Wenders, Le Corbusier, Beatriz Colomina, and (my favorite) Juhani Pallasmaa. While there is an almost too heavy reliance on essays from the field of architecture (and you cant really blame Weinthal for that), she divides the book into eight chapters, pulling from many fields: fashion, philosophy, film, and art." - Paul Makovsky, Designers&Books, "This excellently produced monograph features 39 of Scher's most riveting geographical visions." --The Daily Beast, "Forget about getting from point A to point B and journey through the crazy detailed, deceptively accurate, wild imagination of Paula Scher." -- Communication Arts

Grade FromPreschool

Dewey Decimal760.092

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisIn the early 1990s, celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher (Make It Bigger, 2002) began painting maps of the world as she sees it. The larger her canvases grew, the more expressionistic her geographical visions became. Displaying a powerful command of image and type, Scher brilliantly transformed the surface area of our world. Paintings as tall as twelve feet depict continents, countries, and cities swirling in torrents of information and undulating with colorful layers of hand-painted boundary lines, place-names, and provocative cultural commentary. Collected here for the first time,Paula Scher MAPS presents thirty-nine of Scher's obsessively detailed, highly personal creations., In the early 1990s, celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher ( Make It Bigger , 2002) began painting maps of the world as she sees it. The larger her canvases grew, the more expressionistic her geographical visions became. Displaying a powerful command of image and type, Scher brilliantly transformed the surface area of our world. Paintings as tall as twelve feet depict continents, countries, and cities swirling in torrents of information and undulating with colorful layers of hand-painted boundary lines, place-names, and provocative cultural commentary. Collected here for the first time, Paula Scher MAPS presents thirty-nine of Scher's obsessively detailed, highly personal creations.

LC Classification NumberND237.S4216A4 2011