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Usborne, David

 
9780500288719: Objectivity: A Designer's Book of Curious Tools
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ISBN 10: 0500288712 ISBN 13: 9780500288719
Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2010

Sinossi

If you have ever thatched a roof, measured a baby's skull, or castrated a bull, you will recognize some of these objects. If you haven't but admire the work of, say, Warhol, Duchamp, or Cornell, you will appreciate these accidental masterpieces of daily life.

Some tools were developed to satisfy basic human needs, some for less obvious ends, and still others are the relics of vanishing trades, yet all display a beauty and meaning beyond their function.

More than 400 objects, ancient and modern, are presented in sections that broadly characterize their use: hitting, cutting, holding, shielding, molding, spreading, gripping, rubbing, and testing. From a nineteenth-century fruit picker to Czech military food-mixing blades, from variations on the kitchen whisk to medical instruments that, thankfully, are no longer in use, there is something in these objects that will touch the inventor, designer, artist, or collector in all of us.

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Product Description

A cabinet of beguiling yet useful curiosities: the objects that get jobs done, improve domestic and working lives, and make our houses more comfortable.

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Editore
Thames & Hudson
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0500288712
ISBN 13 
9780500288719
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
191
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Buchpark GmbH
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