Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-03-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307833984

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Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.


Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Lawrence Weschler
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-20 - Publisher: Vintage

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Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carve
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Language: en
Pages: 163
Authors: Lawrence Weschler
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Pantheon

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The author takes readers on a tour of his personal museum of natural oddities and optical illusions as he explores the imaginative origins of art and science
Everything that Rises
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Lawrence Weschler
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: McSweeney's

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From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Lawrence Weschler
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style an
Calamities of Exile
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Lawrence Weschler
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-04 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"These three essays, these novellas--call them what you will--are extraordinary tales about excruciating modern themes: individual responsibility, national iden