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Glass Is Elastic
Jon Glover
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Description for Glass Is Elastic
Paperback. Deals with surfaces and reflections, mirrors and windows. This title explores the treachery and creativity inherent in the eye's lens, in the eyeball itself, in a microscope or camera, in a telescope, in the mysterious properties of glass, malleable as time itself. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168. 128 pages. Deals with surfaces and reflections, mirrors and windows. This title explores the treachery and creativity inherent in the eye's lens, in the eyeball itself, in a microscope or camera, in a telescope, in the mysterious properties of glass, malleable as time itself. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 150 x 216 x 10. Weight: 168.
"Glass is Elastic" is a book of surfaces and reflections, mirrors and windows. What do we see - what do we know - in a world experienced through lenses and screens? 'Don't blink. Nobody's / looking, nobody's seeing'. Jon Glover explores the treachery and creativity inherent in the eye's lens, in the eyeball itself, in a microscope or camera, in a telescope, in the mysterious properties of glass, malleable as time itself. We translate the shape of the world into maps, pixels, mathematical data; into stories that change in the telling. A central poem sequence links medicine, war and vision ... Read more
"Glass is Elastic" is a book of surfaces and reflections, mirrors and windows. What do we see - what do we know - in a world experienced through lenses and screens? 'Don't blink. Nobody's / looking, nobody's seeing'. Jon Glover explores the treachery and creativity inherent in the eye's lens, in the eyeball itself, in a microscope or camera, in a telescope, in the mysterious properties of glass, malleable as time itself. We translate the shape of the world into maps, pixels, mathematical data; into stories that change in the telling. A central poem sequence links medicine, war and vision ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847771148
SKU
V9781847771148
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99-50
About Jon Glover
Jon Glover was born in Sheffield in 1943 and was educated at the University of Leeds, where he met Jon Silkin, Ken Smtih, Geoffrey Hill, Peter Redgrove, David Wright and Jeffrey Wainwright and started to help produce and edit Stand magazine. He spent the year 1966-7 in the United States with his wife, Elaine, who comes from near Niagra Falls. ... Read more
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