UID:
almahu_9947382026302882
Format:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780874213805
,
0874213800
Content:
Jones explores the human impulse to create, the necessity for having aesthetically satisfying experiences, and the craving for tradition. He also considers topics such as making chairs, remodeling houses, using and preserving soda-fountain slang, preparing and eating food, and sculpting lifelike figures out of cement.
Note:
Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1987, in series: American material culture and folklife. Masters of material culture.
,
pt. 1. Making things -- pt. 2. Sensory experiences -- pt. 3. Art at work -- pt. 4. Methods and concepts.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780874211658
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0874211654
Language:
English
