A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age, Volume 6

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the digital to biotechnology - have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st century take us? The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Laurie A. Wilkie is Professor at the University of California-Berkeley, USA. John M. Chenoweth , is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Series Preface 12 Introduction Laurie A. Wilkie and John M. Chenoweth 14 1 Objecthood Christopher Witmore 50 2 Technology Steven A. Walton and Timothy J. Scarlett 78 3 Economic Objects Paul Graves-Brown 98 4 Everyday Objects Stacey L. Camp 120 5 Art Susanne Küchler and Timothy Carroll 138 6 Architecture Paul R. Mullins 162 7 Bodily Objects Laurie A. Wilkie, Katrina C. L. Eichner, Kelly Fong, David G. Hyde, Alyssa Scott, and Annelise Morris 186 8 Object Worlds Alfredo González-Ruibal 216 Notes 237 Bibliography 241 Notes on Contributors 274 Index 276 "The aim of this book, as of all six volumes of A Cultural History of Objects is to offer an account of the increasing entanglement of humans and things, not simply assessing the changing extent of the entanglement but revealing important shifts in the nature of that entanglement"-- Provided by publisher "The aim of this book, as of all six volumes of A Cultural History of Objects is to offer an account of the increasing entanglement of humans and things, not simply assessing the changing extent of the entanglement but revealing important shifts in the nature of that entanglement"-- Résumé de l'éditeur