[audiobook] Evans County (Images of America) by Evans County Centennial Committee in Arts-Photography

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What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955; when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokovs classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life; from fashion to film.Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokovs Novel in Art and Design reconsiders the cover of Lolita. Eighty renowned graphic designers and illustrators (including Paula Scher; Jessica Hische; Jessica Helfand; and Peter Mendelsund) offer their own takes on the books jacket; while graphic-design critics and Nabokov scholars survey more than half a century of Lolita covers. Youll also find thoughtful essays from such design luminaries as Mary Gaitskill; Debbie Millman; Michael Bierut; Peter Mendelsund; Jessica Helfand; Alice Twemlow; Johanna Drucker; Leland de la Durantaye; Ellen Pifer; and Stephen Blackwell.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 thinking visually about difficult books. Youll never look at Lolita the same way again.