Research Catalog

Title

Maira Kalman : various illuminations (of a crazy world) / Ingrid Schaffner ; with contributions by Donna Ghelerter, Stamatina Gregory, and Kenneth E. Silver.

Author

Schaffner, Ingrid.

Publication

Philadelphia : Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Ghelerter, Donna.
• Gregory, Stamatina.
• Silver, Kenneth E.
• Kalman, Maira
• University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art.

Description

144 p. : col. ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

This volume presents a survey of the works of American illustrator Maira Kalman (b. 1949). Kalman's works illuminate contemporary life with a profound sense of joy and unique sense of humor. This book was published to accompany the traveling of her paintings, drawings, embroideries, sketchbooks and photographs. Kalman also offers commentary on her life as an artist, collector, observer, traveler, and maker of lists.

Subject

Kalman, Maira > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Issued in connection with an exhibition held Jan. 14-June 6, 2010, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and at three other institutions at later dates.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Exaltations/observations / Ingrid Schaffner -- Marking cloth / Donna Ghelerter -- The contradictoriness of ideas : Maria Kalman's blogging / Stamatina Gregory -- One thing leads to another : Maria Kalman's murals / Kenneth E. Silver -- Works in the exhibition -- Many tables of many things -- Chronology.

ISBN

• 9783791350356
• 3791350358
• 9783791362854
• 3791362852

LCCN

^^2009053004

OCLC

475438185

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library