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Potts, R: Souvenir

Aus der Reihe Object Lessons

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Beschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning...

Beschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples-from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop-travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation. Souvenirs are shown for what they really are: not just objects, but personalized forms of folk storytelling that enable people to make sense of the world and their place in it.' Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Souvenir features illustrations by Cedar Van Tassel

Rezension

Souvenir, a sweet new book by Rolf Potts, is a little gem (easily tucked into a jacket pocket) filled with big insights . Souvenir explores our passions for such possessions and why we are compelled to transport items from one spot to another . Souvenir's introduction, titled "An Embarrassment of Eiffel Towers," is a delight to ponder. Forbes

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum

08.03.2018
Abbildungen

9 b/w illustrations
Illustriert von

Cedar Van Tassel

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum

08.03.2018
Abbildungen

9 b/w illustrations
Illustriert von

Cedar Van Tassel
Verlag Bloomsbury USA
Seitenzahl

144
Maße (L/B/H)

16.7/12.3/1.4 cm
Gewicht

133 g
Sprache

Englisch
ISBN

978-1-5013-2941-8

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  • Produktbild: Potts, R: Souvenir

  • Preface
    1: Introduction: An Embarrassment of Eiffel Towers
    2: Souvenirs in the Age of Pilgrimage
    3: Souvenirs in the Age of Enlightenment
    Interlude: Museums of the Personal
    4: Souvenirs in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    5: Souvenirs and Human Suffering
    6: Souvenirs and (the Complicated Notion of) Authenticity
    7: Souvenirs, Memory, and the Shortness of Life

    Notes
    Index