{"product_id":"9783905714241","title":"Pictograms by","description":"An 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 Jeunesse 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, Twentysix Gasoline Stations (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 Little Red Riding Hood.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310771057013,"sku":"9783905714241","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783905714241.jpg?v=1762814988","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9783905714241","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}