Winter : five windows on the season / Adam Gopnik.
By: Gopnik, Adam [author]
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BookPublisher: London : Quercus, 2012Description: xiii, 256 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780874470 (paperback).Subject(s): Winter | Winter in art | Winter in literatureDDC classification: 508.2 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 508.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00231034 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles marks the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space.
Offering a kaleidoscopic take on the season, Winter is a homage to an idea of a season and a journey through the modern imagination.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-241) and index.
Author's Note -- Romantic Winter -- Radical Winter -- Recuperative Winter -- Recreational Winter -- Remembering Winter -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index.
Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate and is a contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. His most recent book is Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life, a comparison about how those men changed our nation with their history-making actions.
(Bowker Author Biography)