Things : in touch with the past /
This volumes explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to 'embody' their histories. Such genuine or 'real' things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience - an encounter with the past - despite the fact that genuineness is not a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volumes explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to 'embody' their histories. Such genuine or 'real' things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience - an encounter with the past - despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property. Although it often goes unnoticed, the sense of touch underlies such encounters, even though one is often not permitted literal touch. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190904883 0190904887 |