Un splendide guide visuel du monde magnifiquement alambiqué des tire-bouchons. Depuis que la bouteille de vin standardisée est entrée en service au XVIIIe siècle, les assoiffés ont cherché un moyen pratique de retirer son bouchon de liège. Au début, ils utilisaient tout ce qui était à portée de main, y compris les vis de pistolet hélicoïdal utilisées pour nettoyer les armes à feu, mais le tire-bouchon breveté a émergé en 1795 et s'est rapidement multiplié en plus de permutations que le proverbial meilleur piège à souris. Dans Uncorked, Marilynn Gelfman Karp utilise sa propre collection de tire-bouchons ? soigneusement choisis à la fois pour leur inventivité et pour leurs qualités décoratives ? pour retracer l'histoire et l'évolution de cet outil curieux. Elle établit une taxonomie du tire-bouchon, basée sur les caractéristiques fondamentales du manche, de la tige et de la vis, puis présente plus de 650 spécimens individuels par catégorie. Ils vont des modèles "T de base" les plus simples aux envolées de fantaisie les plus fantaisistes (une paire de pattes pliantes, un hippocampe) et aux dispositifs mécaniques les plus élaborés. Chaque exemple est illustré d'une superbe photographie couleur et entièrement décrit. Uncorked est à la fois une contribution sérieuse à l'histoire de la culture matérielle et un plaisir à parcourir. Ce sera une référence essentielle pour les hélixophiles (comme on appelle les collectionneurs de ces gadgets) et un cadeau agréable pour tout amateur de vin brandissant un tire-bouchon.
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Marilynn Gelfman Karp is professor emerita at New York University and a collector and historian of extraordinary objects. Her other publications include In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Act of Collecting.
Jeremy Franklin Brooke is professor of filmmaking at the New School, as well as the creator of the information management systems used in the preparation of Uncorked.
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