Zimmer's exhaustive online archive of Lolita covers, as well as a 2009 cover contest held by Bertram's blog, Venus Febriculosa. Scher's new cover captures the novel's peculiar eroticism in custom letterforms that are ripe, fleshy and almost anatomical.Įdited by John Bertram and Yuri Leving, Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl was inspired by Dieter E.
Pentagram's Paula Scher is one of 60 designers invited to create conceptual covers for Nabokov's classic for Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl, an upcoming collection of graphic representations of Lolita since its publication in 1955. In Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (born today in 1899) tells the story of his character Humbert Humbert's all-consuming obsession with the girlish Lolita-a romance that is strange, inappropriate and incredibly sexual, not to mention highly illegal.
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