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Series: Object Lessons
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From the theatre mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long served as instruments for the protection and concealment of...
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"Mask will explore the long history of masking, asking who and what we seek to protect through different forms of masks"--
Mask explores the long history of masking, asking who and what we seek to protect through different forms of masks.
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Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
From the theatre mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long served as instruments for the protection and concealment of identity.
Even as they conceal and protect, masks—as faces—are an extension of the self. At the same time, they are part of material culture: what are masks made of? What traces do they leave behind? Acknowledging that mask-wearing has become increasingly weaponised and politicised, Sharrona Pearl examines the politics of the mask, exploring how identity itself is interpreted through this object.
By exploring who we do (and do not) seek to protect through different forms of masking, Sharrona Pearl’s long history of masks helps us to better understand what it is we value.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Series: Object Lessons
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9798765102404
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 May 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 122.0mm
Height: 164.0mm
Weight: 130g
Pages: 136
About the Author
Sharrona Pearl is Associate Professor of Bioethics and History in the Health Care Administration Department at Drexel University, USA. She is the author of Do I Know You? From Face Blindness to Super Recognition (2023), Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other (2017), and About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2010). Her writing has appeared in Public Books, Lilith Magazine, The Revealer, and The Washington Post, among others.
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