Résumé:
Informationen zum Autor Nicholas R. Bell is The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator-in-Charge of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He is the author of many books including Untitled: The Art of James Castle (2014), A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets (2013), and 40 under 40: Craft Futures (2012), and is editor of Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture (2015).Lawrence Weschler, former New Yorker staff writer and director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, is the author of more than fifteen books of narrative nonfiction and cultural reportage. Titles include Uncanny Valley and Other Adventures in the Narrative (2011); Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (2006); Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (1995), on the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Culver City, California; and Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (1982), which incorporates more than thirty-five years of conversation with the artist. Klappentext Looks at the whole notion of wonder and discovery, exemplified in nine specially commissioned works by leading contemporary artists.