{"id":10367,"date":"2012-03-01T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2012-03-01T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:19:18","slug":"im-jealous-of-jane-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/im-jealous-of-jane-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of jane mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/janemount.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10368\" title=\"janemount\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/janemount.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"3293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Books! Lots and lots and <em>lots <\/em>of beautiful gouache &amp; ink books drawn by American artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.janemount.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Mount<\/a>. These are just a few pieces from a huge, ongoing series titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/idealbookshelf.typepad.com\/ideal-bookshelf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ideal Bookshelf <\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I paint people&#8217;s ideal bookshelves: your favorite books, books that changed your life, books that made you who you are.<br \/>\nPicking your ideal books is not an easy task (try it!). I think of this project as an intimate form of portraiture; a way to illustrate who the subject is on the inside instead of out.<br \/>\nI love that a book is something created very personally and then mass-produced in order to affect many other people very personally. I paint them to turn them back into something very personal and intimate. In the age of the Kindle (which I also love, btw), it&#8217;s very satisfying.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok, that&#8217;s it&#8230; I&#8217;m going to look through all of my books and make my own &#8216;ideal bookshelf&#8217; right this very minute!<\/p>\n<p><em>{I found Jane&#8217;s work on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.20x200.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> 20&#215;200<\/a>, when I was putting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/28\/a-jealousy-inducing-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s giveaway post <\/a>together&#8230; stay tuned, at <strong>3pm EST today<\/strong> I&#8217;ll announce the winner of the 20&#215;200 gift certificate! You could get yourself some of Jane&#8217;s books!}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books! Lots and lots and lots of beautiful gouache &amp; ink books drawn by American artist\u00a0Jane Mount. These are just a few pieces from a huge, ongoing series titled Ideal Bookshelf : I paint people&#8217;s ideal bookshelves: your favorite books, books that changed your life, books that made you who you are. Picking your ideal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,112,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10374,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions\/10374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}