Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to
the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images,
books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the
natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking
and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato traces the human
relationship with surfaces from the deep history of human
evolution, which unfolded across millennia, up to the contemporary
world. Fusing his work on "Dust and On Foot", he shows how, in the
last two centuries, our understanding, creation, control, and
manipulation of surfaces has become truly revolutionary - in both
scale and volume. With the sweep of grand history matched to
existential concerns for the present, he suggests that we have
become the surfaces we have made, mastered, and now control,
invent, design, and encapsulate our lives. This deeply informed and
original narrative, which joins history and anthropology and
suggests new routes for epistemology and aesthetics, argues that
surfaces are far more than superficial facades of deep inner
worlds.
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