1 Ideal Bookshelf 261: CAF, 2011
Gouache with ink
8 × 10 in. (20 × 25 cm)
Jane Mount is well-known for her Ideal Bookshelf series, in which she paints portraits of people through the spines of their favorite books. “I’m not sure you can tell a book by its cover,” she confesses, “but you can learn a lot about a person from the covers of their books. I love that a book is something created very personally and then mass-produced in order to affect many other people very personally. I paint books to turn them back into something intimate.”
1 Ideal Bookshelf 261: CAF, 2011
Gouache with ink
8 × 10 in. (20 × 25 cm)
2 Portraits of the 20×200 Staff: Carrie,
Greg, Jeffrey, Tamara, David, Sarah,
Brian, Edward, Stephanie, 2010–2011
Gouache with ink
Each 6 × 6 in. (15 × 15 cm)
5 Ideal Bookshelf 275: Design, 2011
Gouache with ink
11 × 14 in. (28 × 36 cm)
8 Ideal Bookshelf 353: English Lit, 2011
Gouache with ink
11 × 16 in. (28 × 41 cm)
