Speck A Curious Collection of UncommonThings /anglais - Hardcover

Peter, Buchanan-smith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568982976 ISBN 13: 9781568982977

Verlag: PRINCETON ARCHI, 2001

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Reseña del editor:

In Speck, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Art Director of the New York Times Op-Ed page, asks artists, designers, lawyers, writers, collectors, and photographers to explore our obsessions with the small objects that loom large in our everyday lives.To wit: Maira Kalman empties people's pocketbooks; Nicholas Blechman and Jesse Gordon trace the history of the oldest piece of dust; David Horrowitz catalogs manhole covers; and Peter Buchanan-Smith unearths a 1966 high school yearbook and transcribes the inscriptions ("To a real sweet and cute guy with a great personality. Remember English III").Speck also shows how "ordinary" people can fascinate as much as "ordinary" objects: an interview with shoe shiner Harry Kitt, Manhattan's last practitioner of the dry-shine, photographs taken by a blind man on a sight-seeing tour, and a barber's extensive collection of earth, water, and air from around the world ask us to re-think our assumptions about the commonplace.

Biografía del autor:

Peter Buchanan-Smith is Art Director of the New York Times Op-Ed page.

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• Verlag: PRINCETON ARCHI
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1568982976
• ISBN 13: 9781568982977
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 215