About this title: From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther (and further) one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything seems to converge -- at least, it does through Weschler's giddy, brilliant eyes. Weschler combines his keen insights into art (both contemporary and Renaissance), his years of experience as a chronicler of the fall of Communism, and his triumphs and failures as the father of a teenage girl into a series of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McSweeneys Books
Date Published: 2006-01-30
ISBN-13:9781932416343ISBN:193241634X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McSweeney's
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781932416343ISBN:193241634X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McSweeney's Books (McSweeneys), San Francisco, California
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781932416343ISBN:193241634X
Description: Fine. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Square. Signed by Author Navy blue cloth boards with pictorial paste-on wrap-around. Illus. in color and B&W. Signed by Weschler on title page with "Surprise Delight" and "2006" plus profile sketch of a man. 237 pp. read more
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Description: New. Weschler combines his keen insights into art (both contemporary and Renaissance), his years of experience as a chronicler of the fall of Communism, and his triumphs and failures as the father of a teenage girl into a series of essays that are sure to... read more
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Description: New. From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther (and further) one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything seems to converge — at least, it does through Weschler's giddy, brilliant eyes. Weschler combines his keen insights into art (both contemporary and Renaissance), his years of experience as a ... read more
"This book constantly makes me feel smarter than I am. Or at least stretches my brain in pleasurable ways I haven't felt since schoolings. Startlingly good."
"Really fascinating series of essays about how artists unconsciously echo each other in the images they use. Lots of great illustrations. My favorite was the photo of the welder guy next to the painting of Mars (the god, not the planet)."
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