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Mindprints
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- Book Synopsis
- A rediscovery of Thoreau's interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought. Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, he accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. In some of these objects, particularly Indigenous artifacts, Thoreau perceived the presence of their original makers, and he called such objects "mindprints." Thoreau believed that these collections could teach him how his experience, his world, fit into the wider, more diverse (even incoherent) assemblage of other worlds created and re-created by other beings every day. In this book, Ivan Gaskell explores how a profound environmental aesthetics developed from this insight and shaped Thoreau's broader thought.
- About The Author
- Ivan Gaskell is professor of cultural history and museum studies at Bard Graduate Center, New York City. He is the author or editor of several books, most recently Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780226836072
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press, (22 November 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 454 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 23 mm
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