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Friends of Interpretable Objects
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: Miguel Tamen
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Tamen shows how inanimate objects take on life through interpretation—notably as they are collected and housed in museums. He claims that an object becomes in
Friends of Interpretable Objects
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Miguel Tamen
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11-30 - Publisher:

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Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in mus
What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books
Language: en
Pages: 128
Authors: Miguel Tamen
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art takes its technical vocabulary from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It is r
The Things Things Say
Language: en
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Authors: Jonathan Lamb
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-13 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, anim
The Ideas in Things
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Elaine Freedgood
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Presents an analysis of nineteenth-century English fiction, focusing on objects found in three Victorian novels, arguing that these items have meanings the mode