{"product_id":"pictograms","title":"Pictograms","description":"\u003cp\u003eA previously unpublished collection of 60 ink pictograms, drawn between 1976 and 1996, originally printed individually as A2 plane prints.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn early progenitor of the artist's book genre, Warja Lavater was born in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1913. She worked as an illustrator for the magazine \u003cem\u003eJeunesse\u003c\/em\u003e from 1944-1958, and moved to New York shortly thereafter where she began a wonderful series of artist's books. These books were published between 1962 and 1971, an exceptionally ripe time for artists to turn to the book form, a time when the most often cited \"first\" artist's book also appeared, \u003cem\u003eTwentysix Gasoline Stations\u003c\/em\u003e (1962) by Ed Ruscha. Many of Lavater's books were made using the accordion-fold binding. Her aesthetic has been aptly described as \"very clean, very Swiss.\" Each book tells a story, sequentially, like traditional books, but varying from them by rarely using words. Instead she chooses a symbol to represent, for example, a character, as in the red dot standing in for Red Riding Hood in \u003cem\u003eLittle Red Riding Hood\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nieves,50 Watt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357970833748,"sku":"A8B-32841","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/contralytic_2045.jpg?v=1790813570","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/pictograms","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}