Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects
Language: English
Published by Reaktion Books, 2021
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- Title
- Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects
- Author
- Edited by Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner and Miranda Critchley Adrian Forty Edited by Barbara Penner,
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1789144523
- ISBN 13
- 9781789144529
'A book so far up our street it may as well move in ... Buy this brilliant book now.' Electric Sound Magazine
'Entertaining, jolting, and scholarly Extinct is a superb counter-blast to our own age of relentless upgrades and product improvements.' Tristram Hunt, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
'both a thoughtful and incisive analysis of the phenomenon and an engaging tribute to some of the intriguing or eccentric objects we have lost in design’s equivalent of natural selection.' Alice Rawsthorn
'This brilliant book is a survey of the future rather than of the past.' Beatriz Colomina
'A wonderfully curious book about how the ghosts of extinct inventions live on, not just in our minds but in the world around us.'Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters
Extinct gathers together the work of an exceptional range of artists, curators, architects, critics and academics, including Barry Bergdoll, Gillian Darley, Tacita Dean, David Edgerton, Hal Foster, Catherine Slessor, Deyan Sudjic and Richard Wentworth. In 85 illustrated essays, contributors nominate ‘extinct’ objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal essays, speaking of not only obsolete technologies, but other ways of thinking, making and interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future that never came to pass.
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