Ideas change everything

The illustrated woman

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Maira Kalman |

TED2007

• March 2007

Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she is on paper.

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Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she is on paper.

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About the speaker

Multidisciplinary artist

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Maira Kalman's wise, witty artworks have appeared on numberless New Yorker covers, in dozens of her own books and in many museums around the world.

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Gallery: Girls standing on lawns

Step into Maira Kalman's world of whimsy with nine illustrations, inspired by her surprisingly large collection of old photographs of women in the yard.

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The Principles of Uncertainty

Maira Kalman | Penguin Books (2009)

Maira Kalman - *The Principles of Uncertainty*

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