num_pages: 200
description: Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Best Non Fiction 2019National Indie Excellence Award WinnerNautilus Book Awards, Gold#1 Amazon Best Seller in Architecture History &amp; PeriodsAmazon Best Seller in Art Subjects &amp; Themes   Seeing the World Through ShapeHow do humans make sense of the world? In answer to this timeless question, award winning documentary filmmaker, Lois Farfel Stark, takes the reader on a remarkable journey from tribal ceremonies in Liberia and the pyramids in Egypt, to the gravity-defying architecture of modern China. Drawing on her experience as a global explorer, Stark unveils a crucial, hidden key to understanding the Shape itself.The Telling Image  is a stunning synthesis of civilization's changing mindsets, a brilliantly original perspective urging you to re-envision history not as a story of kings and wars but through the lens of shape. In this sweeping tour through time, Stark takes us from migratory humans, who imitated a  web  in round-thatched huts and stone circles, to the urban  ladder  of pyramids and skyscrapers, organized by hierarchy and measurements, to today's world of interconnected  networks . In  The Telling Image  Stark reveals how buildings, behaviors, and beliefs reflect humans' search for pattern and meaning. We can read the past and glimpse the future by watching when shapes shift. Stark's beautifully illustrated book asks of all its See what you think.  
language: English
title: The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times
publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press