Taking Things Seriously 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance

Name: Taking Things Seriously 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance
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ISBN: 9781568986906

ISBN-10: 1568986904

ISBN-13: 9781568986906

Edition: 2006

Authors: Joshua Glenn, Carol Hayes

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'Taking Things Seriously' is a wonder cabinet of seventy-five unlikely thingamajigs that have been invested with significance and transformed into totems, talismans, charms, relics, and fetishes: scraps of movie posters scavenged from the streets of New York by Low Life author Luc Sante; the World War I helmet that inoculated social critic Thomas Frank against jingoism; the trash-picked, robot-shaped hairdo machine described by its owner as a chick magnet; the bagel burned by actor Christopher Walken while moonlighting as a short-order cook. The owners of these objects convey their excitement in short, often poignant essays that invite readers to participate in the enjoyable act of…

Book details

List price: $17.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 8/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.58" wide x 7.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.682