Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
	List Price:   $29.95 Unit Price:   $23.96 You Save:   $5.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   159420134X ISBN-13:   9781594201349 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   October 2007 Pages:   336 Format:   Hardcover; With dust jacket
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AESTHETICS ART_PHILOSOPHY
Description/Notes
Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. The Principles of Uncertaintyis an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved artists. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Kalman. Her brilliant, whimsical paintings, ideas, and images-which initially appear random-ultimately form an intricately interconnected worldview, an idiosyncratic inner monologue. Kalman contends with some existential questions-What is identity? What is happiness? Why do we fight wars? And then, of course, death, love, and candy (not necessarily in that order). The tremendous success of Kalman's 2005 illustrated edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Styleestablished her as an original, inspirational voice, and the quirky, hilarious, heartbreaking style of The Principles of Uncertaintyreveals Maira Kalman for what she truly is: a national treasure. 'What is this book? What is anything? Who am I? Who are you? Stop it. Forget it. This is a year in my life. Profusely illustrated. Abounding with anguish, confusion, bits of wisdom. Musings, meanderings, buckets of joie de vivre and restful sojourns.'--BOOK JACKET.