$73.09
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2023
Summary
From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving meditation on the beauty and complexity of women’s lives and roles, revealed in the things they hold.
“What do women hold The home and the family. And the children and the food. The friendships. The work. The work of the world. And the work of being h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780062846679 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0062846671 |
| Author: | Maira Kalman |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | Harper |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 618g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 178mm x 219mm |
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Critics Review
“The prospect of reading and looking at Kalman’s work gets my heart moving like a squirmy animal. This is not a hyperbole. The excitement, I think, is in how she is able to locate the elusive sweet spot of poignant and funny, along with the often-dark complexities behind these emotions. I feel like I will learn something new about people, myself.” — Literary Hub“The mega-talented writer and artist Maira Kalman presents, in radiant color, Women Holding Things. Kalman’s brief texts are thoughtful, autobiographical, powerful. This life-affirming book shines a light on women’s lives and how we all hold our humanity.” — Sandee Brawarsky, Hadassah Magazine“I love Maira Kalman. I love her painting, I love her perspective, I love her handwriting, and I love her books, which somehow contain all of those things and so much more. Maira is a gift to the world, and her gifts should also be your gifts. They will certainly be my gifts.” — Emma Straub, Bookstore Owner and Author”Kalman’s images encompass both everyday pleasures and incomprehensible loss, always affirming art’s sustaining grace.” — Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic of the New York Times“When [Maira] Kalman looked at her archives, she noticed that she had a large collection of photographs of women holding things. […] The project that germinated […] “Women Holding Things,” gathers dozens of new images and some previously unpublished ones.” — New Yorker“In Women Holding Things, artist Kalman—an uncommon philosopher of the quietly magnificent in the mundane—celebrates all the things we hold. […] The tender, infinitely expressive paintings are captioned with spare words that lend each vignette an extra air of human fragility and resilience.” — Maria Popova, The Marginalian
Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman is an author and illustrator of numerous books for adults and children. She is a contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Times. Born in Tel Aviv, she lives in New York City.
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