This title argues that society's priorities, its notions of value, are still informed by our relationship with physical objects, even though we have entered an age characterized by technological abstraction. The book examines how modern life is saturated and defined by things. The authors use a mix of text and photography to describe the way in which two institutions, the department store and the museum, are central to the story of society's access to material things.
- ISBN10 3764363169
- ISBN13 9783764363161
- Publish Date September 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 May 2012
- Publish Country CH
- Imprint Birkhauser
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English