Author:

Yelavich, Susan  Search this

Physical description:

346 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 26 cm

Type:

Books

Criticism, interpretation, etc

Date:

2020

20th century

20e siècle

Notes:

chmmain copy Purchased from the Cooper Hewitt Library Endowment.

Contents:

Culture : identity, displacement, exile -- Politics : prosecution, obfuscation, possibility -- Beings : unruly things, golems, cyborgs -- Technology : connections, disruptions, amplifications -- Domesticity : cleaning, mending, caring -- Consuming : shopping, collecting, hoarding -- Sensing : perceptions, vibrations, visions -- Mortality : death, burial, resurrection

Summary:

"This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and robots, and encompasses places as various as home, country, cities, streets, and parks. Here, fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction are mined for stories of design, which are paired with images of contemporary architecture and design. Through the work of authors such as César Aires, Nicholson Baker, Lydia Davis, Orhan Pamuk, and Virginia Woolf, this book shows the enormous influence that places and things exert in the world"-- Provided by publisher

Topic:

Literature, Modern--History and criticism  Search this

Material culture in literature  Search this

Design in literature  Search this

Littérature--Histoire et critique  Search this

Culture matérielle dans la littérature  Search this

Design dans la littérature  Search this

20.09 art in relation with other areas of culture: other  Search this

Literature, Modern  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1163500