Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture
Author | : Paul Graves-Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135107994 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135107998 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Download or read book Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture written by Paul Graves-Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, to give the reader a new understanding of the relationship between people and their material world. It asks how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies by addressing a broad array of questions including: * why do Berliners have such strange door keys? * should the Isle of Wight pop festival be preserved? * could aliens tell a snail shell from a waste paper basket * why did Victorian England make so much of death and burial?