It’s the perfect meeting of minds. One, a
general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight
and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and
charts give readers a fresh way of looking at life’s challenges and
opportunities. A Bronze Age/Information Age marriage of Sun Tzu and
Jessica Hagy, The Art of War Visualized is an inspired mash-up, a
work that completely reenergizes the perennial bestseller and makes it
accessible to a new generation of students, entrepreneurs, business
leaders, artists, seekers, lovers of games and game theory, and anyone
else who knows the value of seeking guidance for the future in the
teachings of the past.
It’s as if Sun Tzu got a 21st-century do-over.
Author and illustrator of How to Be Interesting,
Jessica Hagy is a cutting-edge thinker whose language—comprising
circles, arrows, and lines and the well-chosen word or two—makes her an
ideal philosopher for our ever-more-visual culture. Her charts and
diagrams are deceptively simple, often funny, and always
thought-provoking. She knows how to communicate not only ideas but the
complex process of thinking itself, complete with its twists and
surprises. For The Art of War Visualized, she presents her vision
in evocative ink-brush art and bold typography. The result is page
after page in which each passage of the complete canonical text (in its
best-known Lionel Giles translation) is visually interpreted in a
singular diagram, chart, or other illustration—transforming,
reenergizing, and making the classic dazzlingly accessible for a new
generation of readers.
