Lines
A Brief History
by Tim Ingold

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Auteur(s)

Tim Ingold

Uitgever

London ; New York : Routledge Classics, 2016

Omvang

190 p., geïllustreerd, 21 cm.

ISBN

9781138640399

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What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines.Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line. Setting out from a puzzle about the relation between speech and song, Ingold considers how two kinds of line – threads and traces – can turn into one another as surfaces form or dissolve. He reveals how our perception of lines has changed over time, with modernity converting to point-to-point connectors before becoming straight, only to be ruptured and fragmented by the postmodern world.

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Trefwoorden

anthropocene , art theory , walking as research

Extra thema's

Walk / stroll / explore / hang out

Opmerkingen

Incl. bibliographical references and Index ; first published in 2007