{"product_id":"piranesi-unbound-carolyn-yerkes-9780691206103","title":"Piranesi Unbound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy Piranesi's greatest works weren't his famous prints but rather the books for which he made them\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and captivating \u003ci\u003eViews of Rome\u003c\/i\u003e and the darkly inventive \u003ci\u003eImaginary Prisons\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor argue that his single greatest art form--one that combined his obsessions most powerfully and that he pursued throughout his career--was the book. \u003ci\u003ePiranesi Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fundamental reinterpretation of Piranesi by recognizing him, first and foremost, as a writer, illustrator, printer, and publisher of books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing nearly two hundred of Piranesi's engravings and drawings, including some that have never been published before, this visually stunning book returns Piranesi's artworks to the context for which he originally produced them: a dozen volumes that combine text and image, archaeology and imagination, erudition and humor. Drawing on new research, \u003ci\u003ePiranesi Unbound \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the social networks in which Piranesi published, including the readers who bought, read, and debated his books. It reveals his habit of raiding the wastepaper pile for cast-off sheets upon which to draw and fuse printed images and texts. It shows how, even after his books were bound, they were subject to change by Piranesi and others as pages were torn out and added. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first major exploration of the lives of Piranesi's books, \u003ci\u003ePiranesi Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the full range of the artist's creativity by showing how it is inextricably bound to his career as a maker of books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Yerkes, Heather Hyde Minor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691206104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691206103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.80h x 9.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2021","brand":"Carolyn Yerkes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988988428543,"sku":"9780691206103","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_317cdc08-6acb-4bb6-935e-1139cf5c72b7.jpg?v=1683297302","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/piranesi-unbound-carolyn-yerkes-9780691206103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}