String figures : a cultural practice between art, anthropology, and theory /
Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, lengths of string make shapes. String figures can do many things: they tell stories, they pass the time, they make the unsayable showable, they connect people. As one of humanity's oldest cultural practices, they...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Zurich :
Diaphanes,
2025.
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| Summary: | Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, lengths of string make shapes. String figures can do many things: they tell stories, they pass the time, they make the unsayable showable, they connect people. As one of humanity's oldest cultural practices, they have inspired artists, anthropologists, and theorists. String figures have been studied as an aesthetic practice, collected as artifacts, and considered as a non-Western way of thinking. The book brings together these diverse threads, weaving connections across world regions and disciplines to re:search, re:define, and re:signify the past and present of a beautiful and complex cultural practice. It looks at the ways of playing together on the ruins of our history. -- Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | Exhibition catalog. |
| Physical Description: | 397 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 23 cm. + 1 card with QR codes for errata. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783035807509 3035807507 |