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A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age / edited by Laurie Wilkie and John Chenoweth.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultural histories series
- Cultural history of objects ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture.
- Anthropology.
- Archaeology (Classical Studies).
- Cultural History (History).
- Decorative Arts and Material Culture (Art).
- Design.
- Material Culture (Anth).
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropology.
- Archaeology (Classical Studies).
- Cultural History (History).
- Decorative Arts and Material Culture (Art).
- Design.
- Material Culture (Anth).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions--from plastics to the digital to biotechnology--have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th Century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st Century take us? The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.
- Notes:
- Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 20 November 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474206907
- 1474206905
- OCLC:
- 1285918996
- Publisher Number:
- 193638
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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