Principles of Uncertainty

Name: Principles of Uncertainty
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ISBN: 9781594201349

ISBN-10: 159420134X

ISBN-13: 9781594201349

Edition: 2007

Authors: Maira Kalman

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/18/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



May 2006: sorry, the rest unknown


June 2006: celestial harmony


July 2006: cherubim and seraphim


August 2006: heaven on earth


September 2006: still


October 2006: collecting myself


November 2006: Paris


December 2006: Ich Habe Genug


January 2007: completely


February 2007: the impossibility of February


March 2007: one thing leads to another


April 2007: finale