Surfaces

Surfaces
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780520954434
ISBN-13 : 0520954432
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Surfaces by : Joseph A. Amato

Download or read book Surfaces written by Joseph A. Amato and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato traces the human relationship with surfaces from the deep history of human evolution, which unfolded across millennia, up to the contemporary world. Fusing his work on Dust and On Foot, he shows how, in the last two centuries, our understanding, creation, control, and manipulation of surfaces has become truly revolutionary—in both scale and volume. With the sweep of grand history matched to existential concerns for the present, he suggests that we have become the surfaces we have made, mastered, and now control, invent, design, and encapsulate our lives. This deeply informed and original narrative, which joins history and anthropology and suggests new routes for epistemology and aesthetics, argues that surfaces are far more than superficial façades of deep inner worlds.


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