Celebration: A Quarterly of Art and Culture

Celebration--acting variously as a binding force for a community or as a self-congratulatory act, carried out in settings as intimate as a family dinner and as grand as tickertape parades--would seem to be so fundamental to human behavior as to operate ahistorically. But the various ways we celebrate--how we crown our heroes, how and when we clap during an opera, how we wave our flags at victory celebrations, how we f?te our celebrities--are structured in vastly different fashions depending on context and period. Cabinet 52, with a special section on "Celebration," features D. Graham Burnett on the history of confetti; George Pendle on stamps celebrating other nations' technological achievements; and James Trainor on the martial motifs of Israeli greeting cards. Elsewhere in the issue: Andrea Scott on the color bittersweet; Martin Kemp on Leonardo's library; and Sasha Archibald on the history of book indexes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932698604
• ISBN13: 9781932698602
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cabinet
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 9.7"