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Tools : extending our reach / [curators: Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid].
Fine Arts Library GN436.8 .T66 2014
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tools--Exhibitions.
- Tools.
- Tools--Social aspects--Exhibitions.
- Product design--Social aspects--Exhibitions.
- Product design.
- Industrial design--Social aspects--Exhibitions.
- Industrial design.
- Design--Exhibitions.
- Design.
- Industrial design--Social aspects.
- Tools--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogues.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY, USA : Cooper Hewitt, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Selected from Cooper Hewitt and nine other Smithsonian collections, the 175 objects in Tools span diverse cultures, places, and time periods. The 1.85 million years of tool use and design represented in the exhibition provide an opportunity to consider tools as classic examples of design, and reveal the fundamental role they play in shaping our lives."-- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Contributors
- Work
- Communicate
- Survive
- Measure
- Make
- Toolboxes
- Observe
- Appendix. Transcriptions of sketches.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Cooper Hewitt, Dec. 12, 2014-May 25, 2015.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 9780910503778
- 091050377X
- OCLC:
- 896904395
- Publisher Number:
- 99988126477
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