Remaking the Crust of the Earth
Remaking the Crust of the Earth
| Author | Gavin Murphy |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Set Margins' |
| ISBN | 9789083318837 |
| Idea Code | 23296 |
Idealism and imagination, dreams and reality, all come into play when we consider glass: from an elemental, ritual and decorative material of mysterious origins, to a functional, technological, mass-produced commodity. 'Remaking the Crust of the Earth' presents a layered, intertextual, cultural history which examines the ways in which glass has transformed society — how humans situate themselves within the environment, and how we view the world. Through the unlikely accident of its discovery to its present day ubiquity, it considers glass in its myriad guises: from the modular prefabrication of Joseph Paxton’s ‘Crystal Palace’ to the optimism of Paul Scheerbart’s Glasarchitektur.
| 56 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, English |
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