{"product_id":"pictograms","title":"Pictograms","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.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57401275842942,"sku":"NW9783905714241","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9783905714241.jpg?v=1778676129","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/pictograms","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}