Things: In Touch with the Past

by Carolyn Korsmeyer

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property. Although it often goes unnoticed, the sense of touch underlies such encounters, even though one is often not permitted literal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190904879
• ISBN13: 9780190904876
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"