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Taking things seriously : 75 objects with unexpected signficance / [Joshua Glenn & Carol Hayes].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glenn, Joshua, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Values--Psychological aspects.
- Values.
- 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
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