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- Book Title
- Things that Talk
- Publication Name
- Things That Talk : Object Lessons from Art and Science
- Title
- Things that Talk
- Subtitle
- Object Lessons from Art and Science
- Contributor
- Lorraine J. Daston (Edited by)
- Format
- Perfect
- ISBN-10
- 1890951447
- EAN
- 9781890951443
- ISBN
- 9781890951443
- Publisher
- ZONE Books
- Genre
- Arts & Photography
- Release Date
- 13/11/2007
- Release Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 25.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge. Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality. True to the particularity of things, each of the essays singles out one object for close attention: a Bosch drawing, the freestanding column, a Prussian island, soap bubbles, early photographs, glass flowers, Rorschach blots, newspaper clippings, paintings by Jackson Pollock. Each is revealed to be a node around which meanings accrete thickly. But not just any meanings: what these things are made of and how they are made shape what they can mean. Neither the pure texts of semiotics nor the brute objects of positivism, these things are saturated with cultural significance. Things become talkative when they fuse matter and meaning; they lapse into speechlessness when their matter and meanings no longer mesh. Each of the nine objects examined in this book had its historical moment, when the match of this thing to that thought seemed irresistible. At these junctures, certain things become objects of fascination, association, and endless consideration; they begin to talk. Things that talk fleetingly realize the dream of a perfect language, in which words and world merge. Essays Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison, Anke te Heesen, Caroline A. Jones, Joseph Leo Koerner, Antoine Picon, Simon Schaffer, Joel Snyder, and M. Norton and Elaine M. Wise. Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. She is the coauthor of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Zone Books).
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Publisher
ZONE Books
ISBN-10
1890951447
ISBN-13
9781890951443
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59953980
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Things That Talk : Object Lessons from Art and Science
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
N72.S3t55 2007
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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This collection is a feast for students of art, modern Western history, and philosophy. Recommended for academic and university libraries..., "What is fascinating in this collection is the diverse ways in which the authors, whose backgrounds and intellectual styles differ significantly, attempt to comprehend not just their fascination with certain objects but also to describe meaningfully the objects' widespread uses. Important, useful, beautiful things are in this sense things that matter. Things that matter have meaning. And meaningful things are things that talk." -Miguel Tamen, University of Lisbon, ""What is fascinating in this collection is the diverse ways in which the authors, whose backgrounds and intellectual styles differ significantly, attempt to comprehend not just their fascination with certain objects but also to describe meaningfully the objects' widespread uses. Important, useful, beautiful things are in this sense things that matter. Things that matter have meaning. And meaningful things are things that talk.", "What is fascinating in this collection is the diverse ways in which the authors, whose backgrounds and intellectual styles differ significantly, attempt to comprehend not just their fascination with certain objects but also to describe meaningfully the objects' widespread uses. Important, useful, beautiful things are in this sense things that matter. Things that matter have meaning. And meaningful things are things that talk." --Miguel Tamen, University of Lisbon, "This collection is a feast for students of art, modern Western history, and philosophy. Recommended for academic and university libraries..." Francisca Goldsmith Library Journal, "This collection is a feast for students of art, modern Western history, andphilosophy. Recommended for academic and university libraries..." Francisca Goldsmith LibraryJournal
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, History, History / General
Dewey Decimal
701/.1
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Art, Science
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