9781628924244: Glass: Object Lessons
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Academic
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1628924241
ISBN 13 
9781628924244
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
136
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