Carol Beggy

Pencil (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it.

Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object.

Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501392221
• Artikelnr.: 69457436

Autorenporträt

Carol Beggy is an award-winning writer and editor, who worked for many years as a print journalist, including 15 years with The Boston Globe. She has worked as a public relations consultant, a television producer, an editor for blogs and newsletters, a producer and talent booker for podcasts, and speechwriter. She is the author or co-author of ten books, including six with renowned Boston photographer Bill Brett. She is a graduate of Northeastern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1. Variations on a Theme2. Making Their Mark3. Tools of the Trade4. People and Their Pencils5. To Boldly Go6. Collectors Versus Users7. Pencils in the Wild8. A Thoreau Job9. Pencils Up10. #FindYourPeopleAfterwordNotesAcknowledgmentsSelected Bibliography and Suggested Further ReadingIndex

Rezensionen

A fascinating voyage of discovery demonstrating why, in an age of electronic everything, the pencil still grips us. Daniel Rosenberg, Professor of History, University of Oregon, USA, and author of Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline