Overview
Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novelsāMotherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many othersāplay with genres and storytelling modes like a DJ mixing music. But Lethem grew up in his fatherās studio, went to art school, and, in his own words, āmade hundreds if not thousands of drawings, collages, paintings, hand-drawn comics, and even two animated shortsā before diverting, at nineteen, to prose fiction. The surreal and form-defying panoply of his stories, essays, and novels celebratesāand mournsāthis 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 Lethemās writing, is the subject of this book.Ā
Cellophane Bricks gathers a lifetime of Lethemās art-writing, along with stunning, full-color images from the authorās own collection and elsewhere. Here we tour Lethemās fictions in response to (and in exchange for) artworks by his friends; his meditations on comics and graffiti art; his collaborations with artists and interventions into visual culture, and his portrait of the museum that was and continues to be his home, untethered from geography. More than just a compilation, Cellophane Bricks comprises a kind of stealth memoir of Jonathan Lethemās parallel life in visual cultureāa ravishing assemblage that makes the perfect gift for story lovers of all kinds, and an essential, singular brick to add to your own collection.
This book title, Cellophane Bricks (A Life in Visual Culture), ISBN: 9798988670001, by Jonathan Lethem, published by The Unnamed Press (July 16, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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