The vast extent : on seeing and not seeing further / Lavinia Greenlaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenlaw, Lavinia, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Faber & Faber Verlag, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art.

Science.

Technology.

Travel.

Memory.

Essays.

essays.

science (modern discipline).

travel.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

vii, 310 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber & Faber, 2024.

Summary:

"An expansive, wonder-filled collection exploring art, science and travel. From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is a constellation of 'exploded essays' about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages, scientific scrutiny and a poet's response so that they cast light upon each other. Ranging across caves, seasickness, early photography, boredom, wonder, mountains, mice, the body and its shadow, from the Arctic at midwinter to a shingle spit in Norfolk at midsummer, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to travel such questions as how we might describe what we have never seen before or what helps us to see more clearly or persuades us to see what's not there. Art, science, technology, vision and memory inform one another in this original and illuminating work."-- Amazon.com.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 285-302) and index

ISBN:

9780571355631

0571355633

OCLC:

1423329856