A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the digital to biotechnology - have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st century take us? The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Laurie A. Wilkie is Professor at the University of California-Berkeley, USA. John M. Chenoweth , is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte>

Product details

• Authors: John Chenoweth, Laurie Wilkie
• Assisted by: John Chenoweth (Editor), Laurie Wilkie (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781350463639
• ISBN: 978-1-350-46363-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 14 mm
• Series: The Cultural Histories Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, 20th Century, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology