Carol Beggy: Pencil | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781501392245 | Pencil | Carol Beggy | Taschenbuch | Object Lessons | Englisch | 2024

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Beschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it.

Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object.

Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Über den Autor

Carol Beggy is an award-winning writer and editor, who worked for many years as a print journalist, including 15 years with The Boston Globe. She has worked as a public relations consultant, a television producer, an editor for blogs and newsletters, a producer and talent booker for podcasts, and speechwriter. She is the author or co-author of 10 books, including six with renowned Boston photographer Bill Brett. She is a graduate of Northeastern University.

Zusammenfassung

The market for pencils has grown in recent years (reflected in the increase in imports from Japan, India, and Europe) because of the resurgence of journaling, the renewed interest in zines that occurred during the pandemic, a move among artists and craftspeople to augment their digital work, and the adult coloring book craze brought which has created a huge growth in the demand for colored pencils

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Variations on a Theme
2. Making Their Mark
3. Tools of the Trade
4. People and Their Pencils
5. To Boldly Go
6. Collectors Versus Users
7. Pencils in the Wild
8. A Thoreau Job
9. Pencils Up
10. #FindYourPeople
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Object Lessons
ISBN-13:	9781501392245
ISBN-10:	1501392247
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Klappenbroschur
Autor:	Beggy, Carol
Redaktion:	Bogost, Ian Schaberg, Christopher
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	164 x 122 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Carol Beggy
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.02.2024
Gewicht:	0,148 kg

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