The Waterless Sea by Christopher Pinney
The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion, and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
`This is both a study of the mirage as a subject of scholarship and a profound meditation on its paradoxical form as a true illusion. . Itself written as if in the style of a mirage, this is a beautifully conceived work that philosophises the visible.'- Faisal Devji, University of Oxford; `An extraordinary tour of the union of refraction and the imagination.'- Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; "Pinney's erudite and highly readable account of the mirage is a scintillating journey through more than just an ephemeral intangibility. It is a substantial history of the sublime as it is refracted on the surface of what remains enchanted, mysterious and strange.'- Omar W. Nasim, University of Regensburg
Christopher Pinney is Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London. His publications include Camera Indica (1997), Photos of the Gods (2004) and Photography and Anthropology (2011), all published by Reaktion.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780239323 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780239327 |
| Title | The Waterless Sea |
| Author | Christopher Pinney |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2018-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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