Glass
By: John Garrison
Series: Object lessons; Object lessons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781628924244
Subjects: Glass; Glassware; Popular works; Glass in literature
Description: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A day made of glass; title: Macbeth; title: Minority report; title: Microscopic vision; title: Telescopic vision; title: Earrings and landscapes; title: Photography; title: Shakespeare's Sonnets; title: Heart of glass; title: Sea glass; title: Google glass; title: Trademark; title: Microsoft Hololens; title: Strange days; title: A glass, darkly; title: Surfaces; title: A world of glass; title: What's in my pocket.