Catalog

by Carin Goldberg

Carin Goldberg, ever on the lookout for useful images for her graphic projects, acquired a mail-order catalog dated winter 1951 to 1952. This two-pound "wish book" offered Americans everything they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584791039
• ISBN13: 9781584791034
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

not what you might expect

this is not some nostalgic look backward at the wacky and retro world of catalogs. this is a lovingly constructed paean to imagery we have all seen, but are now able to understand (with Ms. Goldberg's remarkable touch) as the art of the common object.her book is about the love of the ordinary. it is about the power of the familiar. and about a time when anonymous artists made ethereal images of the corporeal world, then assembled them into books of contemporary reality.or maybe i love it becuase it is just beautiful.