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Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture

Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture

Lethem, Jonathan

Hardcover

Series: ZE, Book 5

Biographies GeneralFolk & Outsider ArtGeneral Art

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ISBN13: 9798988670001
Publisher: ZE Books
Published: Jul 30 2024
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels--Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many others--play with genres and storytelling modes like a DJ mixing music. But Lethem grew up in his father's studio, went to art school, and, in his own words, made hundreds if not thousands of drawings, collages, paintings, hand-drawn comics, and even two animated shorts before diverting, at nineteen, to prose. The surreal and form-defying panoply of his stories, essays, and novels celebrates--and mourns--this forsaken world of the visual and plastic arts. That leap, between the cellophane ephemerality of language and the brick-like tangibility of visual art, which operates as a sublimated wellspring for Lethem's writing, is the subject of this book.

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