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Look Up is the biography of the Paris-born and Vienna-trained artist Sacha Kolin (1911-1981), who navigated the competitive New York art world with talent, charm, and persistence. The design of this biography reflects Sacha’s paradoxical and larger-than-life personality, as a collection of fragmentary images and quotes, brought together in collage-like (even sculpture-like) form to create a coherent picture of her life.
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“... Thaler’s innovative and tireless research and dedication to bringing mischievous and daring Kolin and her “spare and gestural art” back into the light has resulted in an involving, surprising, gracefully designed, meticulously documented, and picture-rich first biography. Kolin was as eccentric as she was talented, what with her fear of dentists, crazy love for her salukis, and reckless insistence on living far beyond her means. A remarkable artist who worked against great odds, a wildly impractical hustler with chutzpah, Kolin is fascinating and evocative, and Thaler portrays her with precision and sensitivity.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist
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