The Surface of Things
Title | The Surface of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Prita Meier |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2024-10-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0691201870 |
"The first history of photography from Africa's Swahili coast, revealing the images' complicated relationships to colonialism and global influence"--
On the Surface of Things
Title | On the Surface of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Felice Frankel |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780674026889 |
Using innovative photographic technology, Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George M. Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur.
The Pale Surface of Things
Title | The Pale Surface of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Janey Bennett |
Publisher | Janey Bennett |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0973400722 |
A fast moving novel in a Cretan village - kidnappings and killings, prayers and healing, ethics and ritual...and a darn good tale.
Fewer, Better Things
Title | Fewer, Better Things PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Adamson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018-08-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1632869640 |
From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years. The objects are still here, but we seem to care less and know less about them. In his presentations to groups, he often asks an audience member what he or she knows about the chair the person is sitting in. Few people know much more than whether it's made of wood, plastic, or metal. If we know little about how things are made, it's hard to remain connected to the world around us. Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention that goes into producing them. Reading this wise and elegant book is a truly transformative experience.
Wallace Stevens
Title | Wallace Stevens PDF eBook |
Author | Wallace Stevens |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 130 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780571237937 |
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Wallace Stevens was born in Pennsylvania in 1879. Harmonium, published in 1923, became a landmark in modern American poetry with its startling imagery and meditations on art, reality and imagination. It was followed by Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Transport to Summer and The Necessary Angel. Stevens died in 1955.
The Surface of Things
Title | The Surface of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Waldstein |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 2019-06-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783337798833 |
The Surface of Things
Title | The Surface of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Phebe Davidson |
Publisher | Wordtech Communications |
Total Pages | 75 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781934999486 |