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Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder
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Artikel-Nr:
9780307833983
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
0
Autor:
Lawrence Weschler
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionPronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "e;wonder cabinets"e; that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionPronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "e;wonder cabinets"e; that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.