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Author: Bret L. Rothstein (Associate Professor of Art History, Indiana University)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 22.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.930kg
ISBN: 9780271082424
ISBN 10: 0271082429
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 30 April 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
An innovative, charming, and mysterious study about puzzles. Bret Rothstein's book provides readers with unusual and unexpected insights into the enigmatic world of people who make puzzles and those who aspire to solve them. -Branko Mitrovic, author of Rage and Denials: Collectivist Philosophy, Politics, and Art Historiography, 1890-1947
By their very nature, puzzles pose challenges-for both their makers and their solvers. How much more, then, does the actual study of puzzles challenge existing categories of scholarship! There is (as yet) no academic department of enigmatology, but if there were, this book would be its primer; however, this is no mere survey. Ranging across examples of `unruly objects' in varied materials from the Renaissance to the present, Bret Rothstein's analyses make work out of play and vice versa, and we are all beneficiaries of his brilliant insights-dare one say decryptions? -Larry Silver, author of Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor An innovative, charming, and mysterious study about puzzles. Bret Rothstein's book provides readers with unusual and unexpected insights into the enigmatic world of people who make puzzles and those who aspire to solve them. -Branko Mitrovic, author of Rage and Denials: Collectivist Philosophy, Politics, and Art Historiography, 1890-1947
By their very nature, puzzles pose challenges--for both their makers and their solvers. How much more, then, does the actual study of puzzles challenge existing categories of scholarship! There is (as yet) no academic department of enigmatology, but if there were, this book would be its primer; however, this is no mere survey. Ranging across examples of 'unruly objects' in varied materials from the Renaissance to the present, Bret Rothstein's analyses make work out of play and vice versa, and we are all beneficiaries of his brilliant insights--dare one say decryptions? --Larry Silver, author of Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor An innovative, charming, and mysterious study about puzzles. Bret Rothstein's book provides readers with unusual and unexpected insights into the enigmatic world of people who make puzzles and those who aspire to solve them. --Branko Mitrovic, author of Rage and Denials: Collectivist Philosophy, Politics, and Art Historiography, 1890-1947
Author Information
Bret L. Rothstein teaches at Indiana University, where his courses address the cultural work of images and objects. He has published extensively on early Netherlandish devotional culture, sixteenth-century humanist wit, and the sociocultural ramifications of ludic objects.
