Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing by Brückner, Martin

Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing

How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be Whether...
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Author: Martin Brückner
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Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing by Brückner, Martin

Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing

CHF 66.84

Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing

CHF 66.84
Author: Martin Brückner
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be

Whether looking inward to the intricacies of human anatomy or outward to the furthest recesses of the universe, expanding the boundaries of human inquiry depends to a surprisingly large degree on the making of models. In this wide-ranging volume, scholars from diverse fields examine the interrelationships between a model's material foundations and the otherwise invisible things it gestures toward, underscoring the pivotal role of models in understanding and shaping the world around us. Whether in the form of reproductions, interpretive processes, or constitutive tools, models may bridge the gap between the tangible and the abstract.

By focusing on the material aspects of models, including the digital ones that would seem to displace their analogue forebears, these insightful essays ground modeling as a tactile and emphatically humanistic endeavor. With contributions from scholars in the history of science and technology, visual studies, musicology, literary studies, and material culture, this book demonstrates that models serve as invaluable tools across every field of cultural development, both historically and in the present day.

Modelwork is unique in calling attention to modeling's duality, a dynamic exchange between imagination and matter. This singular publication shows us how models shape our ability to ascertain the surrounding world and to find new ways to transform it.

Contributors: Hilary Bryon, Virginia Tech; Johanna Drucker, UCLA; Seher Erdoğan Ford, Temple U; Peter Galison, Harvard U; Lisa Gitelman, New York U; Reed Gochberg, Harvard U; Catherine Newman Howe, Williams College; Christopher J. Lukasik, Purdue U; Martin Scherzinger, New York U; Juliet S. Sperling, U of Washington; Annabel Jane Wharton, Duke U.



Author: Martin Brückner
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 6.93h x 9.92w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781517910907

About the Author

Martin Brückner is professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware. He is author or coeditor of several books, most recently The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860.

Sandy Isenstadt is professor and chair of art history at the University of Delaware and author or coeditor of several books, most recently Electric Light: An Architectural History.

Sarah Wasserman is associate professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware. She is author of The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel (Minnesota, 2020).




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