Taking Things Seriously : 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance
Language: English
Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- Taking Things Seriously : 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance
- Author
- Hayes, Carol, Glenn, Joshua
- Publisher
- Princeton Architectural Press
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1568986904
- ISBN 13
- 9781568986906
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 0.683 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
'Taking Things Seriously' is a wonder cabinet of seventy-five unlikely thingamajigs that have been invested with significance and transformed into totems, talismans, charms, relics, and fetishes: scraps of movie posters scavenged from the streets of New York by Low Life author Luc Sante; the World War I helmet that inoculated social critic Thomas Frank against jingoism; the trash-picked, robot-shaped hairdo machine described by its owner as a chick magnet; the bagel burned by actor Christopher Walken while moonlighting as a short-order cook. The owners of these objects convey their excitement in short, often poignant essays that invite readers to participate in the enjoyable act of interpreting things.
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About the Author
Joshua Glenn is a Boston-based writer and editor at The Boston Globe.
Carol Hayes is an award-winning designer and artist. She lives in
Brooklyn.
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