Sock

ISBN-13: 9781501315060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str.

Kim Adrian; Christopher Schaberg; Ian Bogost

Opis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily with hardly a thought. Unraveling the garment's history, construction, and use, Kim Adrian's Sock reintroduces us to our own bodies-- vulnerable, bipedal, and flawed. Sock reminds us that extraordinary secrets live in mundane material realities, and shows how this floppy, often smelly, sometimes holey piece of clothing, whether machine-made or hand-knit, can also serve as an anatomy lesson, a physics primer, a love letter, a weapon, a fetish, and a fashion statement.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Recenzje

Kim Adrian's Sock is the darndest thing. Witty and sly, written with the highest tactile precision, it is at the same time stacked with erudite asides and unexpected perspectives. Adrian reminds us where the ground lies and how we move upon it-and what miraculous things we have encasing our feet as we do so. Sven Birkerts, author of Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Socks & Evolution 2. Socks & Desire 3. Socks & Industry Coda: Instructions for Darning a Sock Notes Index

O autorze

Kim Adrian is an award-winning writer based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Agni, the Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, the New England Review, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a P.E.N. New England Discover Award, and Artist's Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her most recent book is The 27th Letter of the Alphabet.