Glass: Object Lessons - Softcover

Garrison, Professor John S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628924241 ISBN 13: 9781628924244

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Explores an object that is all round us, from windows to iPhone screens, and the fascinating and strange ways it reflects our inherent desire for connection.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John S. Garrison is the author of seven books, including Glass (Bloomsbury, 2015) and The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare (2024). In 2021, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1628924241
• ISBN 13: 9781628924244
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien