{"product_id":"cellophane-bricks-a-life-in-visual-culture","title":"Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Lethem\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-214b878407ad29ade356\" data-sqsp-block=\"text\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\" class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eMany know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels—\u003cem\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fortress of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChronic City\u003c\/em\u003e, among many others—play with genres and storytelling modes like a DJ mixing music. But Lethem grew up in his father’s studio, went to art school, and, in his own words, “made hundreds if not thousands of drawings, collages, paintings, hand-drawn comics, and even two animated shorts” before diverting, at nineteen, to prose. The surreal and form-defying panoply of his stories, essays, and novels celebrates—and mourns—this 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 Lethem’s writing, is the subject of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCellophane Bricks \u003c\/em\u003emortars together Lethem’s fictions in response to (and in exchange for) artworks by his friends with dozens of original essays. Here we tour 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. Unique in Lethem’s kaleidoscopic oeuvre, \u003cem\u003eCellophane Bricks \u003c\/em\u003ecomprises a kind of stealth memoir of his parallel life in visual culture. Gorgeously designed, with stunning, full-color images from the author’s own collection and elsewhere, \u003cem\u003eCellophane Bricks \u003c\/em\u003eis a ravishing assemblage for story lovers of all kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCellophane Bricks\u003c\/em\u003e takes us under the hood, revealing the ways that art and life are coextensive . . . The book, for me, sits spine to spine with the collected art writing of the late, great Peter Schjeldahl . . . His book is a subtle reminder that criticism of any kind should aspire to start a trialogue with the creator and reader—to solicit a visceral response—and impart aesthetic bliss.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtforum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e19.09.24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e9798988670001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExtent:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eHardback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***Please note, if out of stock at our warehouse, this title can be purchased at most good high street and online booksellers***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Omnibus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57297367597433,"sku":"9798988670001","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0284\/5379\/7967\/files\/9798988670001.jpg?v=1779116226","url":"https:\/\/omnibuspress.com\/products\/cellophane-bricks-a-life-in-visual-culture","provider":"omnibuspress.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}