Art Hiding in Paris
An Illustrated Guide to the Secret Masterpieces of the City of Light
$36.13
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2023
Summary
Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city of more art than you could possibly explore in a lifetime—and not just in museums. Tucked away in tree-lined parks, preserved in world-class restaurants, emblazoned on Metro station walls, and hidden in the most unexpected places are masterpieces worthy of the Louvre, if you know where to look!
In this whimsically illustrated celebration of Parisian art and artists, author and curator Lori Zimmer highlights more than 100 treas…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780762480661 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0762480661 |
| Author: | Lori Zimmer, Maria Krasinski |
| Publisher: | Running Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Running Press Adult |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 740g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 160mm x 30mm |
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“Author Lori Zimmer and illustrator Maria Krasinski show how art has so permeated Paris that works of beauty and invention can be found beyond and between the expected places…Zimmer’s informative, accessible text and Krasinski’s charmingly detailed illustrations cover more than 100 spots, many of them free to visit and all connected to or created by great artists of the past or their modern-day successors.”–Zac Thompson, Frommer’s
About The Author
Lori Zimmer
Lori Zimmer is a New York-based curator, writer, and author of The Art of Cardboard: Big Ideas for Creativity, Collaboration, Storytelling, and Reuse (2015), The Art of Spray Paint: Inspirations and Techniques from Masters of Aerosol (2017), and Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Secret Masterpieces (2020, with Maria Krasinski). She founded the art history blog Art Nerd New York in 2012, which focused on art history and contemporary art in New York City.
After leaving her gallery job in 2009, Zimmer has spent the last ten years crafting her own career in the art world which has included curating, art writing and criticism, event planning, PR, artist management, and an array of related endeavors. Since 2016, she has worked as an artist liaison on copyright infringement cases for law firm Kushnirsky Gerber PLLC in New York. Zimmer has curated over forty exhibitions and projects in New York, Miami, Nantucket, Philadelphia, Chicago, Hamburg, Germany, Paris, France and the White House under the Obama administration. In 2018 she donated her left kidney to a friend and decided to focus on writing projects full-time.
Zimmer lives in New York City with her boyfriend Logan Hicks and his son Sailor.
Maria Krasinski is an illustrator, designer, and researcher whose work spans cultural diplomacy, arts education, museums, and humanitarian projects. She has illustrated the book Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Secret Masterpieces (written by Lori Zimmer) and contributed creative work to outlets such as the Chicago Public Library, Lonely Planet, Muhammad Ali Center, and the New York Times.
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