Blanket

ISBN-13: 9781628922653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str.

Kara Thompson; Christopher Schaberg; Ian Bogost

Opis

Blanket explores covers in everyday contexts, "New World" colonial encounters, contemporary art, emerging economies, and collecting practices to show how the blanket is not just an object of utility, but one that provides lessons in metaphor, viruses, and secrets.

Recenzje

There is nothing trivial about this little book. It addresses one ostensibly ordinary object - a blanket - but quickly turns your ideas on their heads . Author Kara Thompson traverses a continent of meanings and implications, focusing on various artworks that use some type of blanket motif, or actual blankets, to illustrate metaphorical blankets, especially ones that deal with death. You will appreciate her brilliant analysis of these artworks and their synthesis with themes of colonialism, subjugation, memory, and survival, which is sensitive and detailed. Entwined through the story is a very personal and vulnerable story, in which Thompson wraps these blankets' abstraction into her individual experience. The book will stay with you for a long time. Seattle Book Review

Spis treści

A Note to the ReaderPreface: ConvoluteUnfold 11. WitnessUnfold 22. FoldsUnfold 33. Transmission, ExtractionUnfold 44. SecurityUnfold 55. Under CoverUnfold 66. CarriersUnfold 7AcknowledgmentsBibliographyList of FiguresIndex

O autorze

Kara Thompson is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, College of William and Mary, USA. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and the Atlantic.