{"product_id":"contraption-by-renny-pritikin-9783777429762","title":"Contraption","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first book to examine the achievements of California artists of Jewish descent, \u003ci\u003eContraption\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how sixteen artists use the metaphor of the machine to understand and depict how the individual aligns his or her identity with the workings of an at times incomprehensible social system. The compelling works showcased in this catalogue illuminate the humour and drama of a century on the West Coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCartoonist Rube Goldberg became a beloved humourist at the turn of the last century by drawing enormously complicated machines to accomplish wholly unnecessary jobs. Ned Kahn, who invents machines that make visible otherwise invisible natural phenomena, is among America's greatest artists working today in public places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmid these towering figures are a hundred years' worth of California Jewish artists including standouts such as acclaimed ceramicist Annabeth Rosen and gizmo matriarch Bella Feldman. These artists' works—and fourteen others—gracefully render the world as a gigantic unexplained mechanism, complex, baffling, and lovely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430332645612,"sku":"9783777429762","price":68.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783777429762.jpg?v=1774559177","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/contraption-by-renny-pritikin-9783777429762","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}