Taking things seriously : 75 objects with unexpected signficance / [Joshua Glenn & Carol Hayes].

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Glenn, Joshua, 1967-

Contributor:

• Hayes, Carol, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Values--Psychological aspects.
• Meaning (Psychology).
• Relevance.

Physical Description:

174 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural, 2007.

Summary:

'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 interpreting things.

ISBN:

• 9781568986906
• 1568986904

OCLC:

165410330