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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996

Description

Imaging Desire is the conceptual autobiography of the artist and author Mary Kelly. Her work investigates the maternal and the feminine masquerade in art and critiques the site of the female body as the desired image.

Credits
Art director: Jean Wilcox
Jacket designer: Jean Wilcox
Photographer: Ray Barrie
Author: Mary Kelly
Typeface: Stone Sans
Publisher/client: The MIT Press