Rust

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.It's happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology. Jean-Michel Rabate' combines art, science, and autobiography to share his fascination with peeling paints and rusty metal sheets. Rust, he concludes, is a place where things living, built, and remembered commingle.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic .

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Michel Rabatae, Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel (University of Pennsylvania Rabate, Professor Jean-Michel (University of Pennsylvania Rabate, Jean-Michel Rabaté
• Assisted by: Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781501329494
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-2949-4
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 164 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Object Lessons; Object Lessons
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Philosophy: aesthetics, Material Culture, Literary theory