Glenn Adamson

Gebundenes Buch

A Century of Tomorrows

How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present

Beschreibung

An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world.

Autor

Glenn Adamson's books include Fewer, Better Things, The Invention of Craft , and The Craft Reader. His writings have also been published in museum catalogues and in Art in America, Antiques, frieze, and other periodicals. He was previously director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and has held appointments as Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, and as Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781639730230
• ISBN-10: 1639730230
• Artikelnr.: 69797703

Rezensionen

Adamson accords [these visionaries] a place in his book because they expanded America's sense of the possible . . . The conclusion that [he] draws from his illuminating forays into cultural history is that any claim to be able to control the future is an illusion; the more scientific it sounds, the more dangerous it can be.