SPECK: A Curious Collection Of Uncommon Things
SKU: DADAX1568982976
ISBN : 9781568982977
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SPECK: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things
In Speck, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Art Director of the New York Times Op-Ed page, asks artists, designers, lawyers, writers, collectors, and photographers to explore our obsessions with the small objects that loom large in our everyday lives. To wit: Maira Kalman empties people's pocketbooks; Nicholas Blechman and Jesse Gordon trace the history of the oldest piece of dust; David Horrowitz catalogs manhole covers; and Peter Buchanan-Smith unearths a 1966 high school yearbook and transcribes the inscriptions ("To a real sweet and cute guy with a great personality. Remember English III"). Speck also shows how "ordinary" people can fascinate as much as "ordinary" objects: an interview with shoe shiner Harry Kitt, Manhattan's last practitioner of the dry-shine, photographs taken by a blind man on a sight-seeing tour, and a barber's extensive collection of earth, water, and air from around the world ask us to re-think our assumptions about the commonplace.
Specifications of SPECK: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things
GENERAL | |
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Author | Peter Buchanan-Smith |
Binding | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN-10 | 1568982976 |
ISBN-13 | 9781568982977 |
Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Number Of Pages | 224 |
Publication Date | 2001-12-01 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 8 inch. |
Length | 1.3 inch. |
Width | 1.8 inch. |
Weight | 2.08 pounds. |
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