The Principles of Uncertainty
By Maira Kalman
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Paperback, 9780143116462, 336pp.)
Publication Date: October 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (November 2007)
Categories: Individual Artist, Mind & Body
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Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in this inimitable combination of image and text
An irresistible invitation to experience life through a beloved artist's psyche, The Principles of Uncertainty is a compilation of Maira Kalman's New York Times columns. Part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Kalman, these brilliant, whimsical paintings, ideas, and images-which initially appear random-ultimately form an intricately interconnected worldview, an idiosyncratic inner monologue.
Maira Kalman is an illustrator, author, and designer. Most recently, she illustrated a new edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style.
"My absolute favorite book of recent memory: an exquisite and delightful and peculiarly illustrated memoir about . . . well, the search for the meaning of life. I will be giving this book to everyone I love."
-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
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