9781501367489: Skateboard
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ISBN 10 : 150136748X ISBN 13 : 9781501367489
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport? Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark answers this question by going straight to the sources: the skaters, photographers, commentators, and industry insiders who made such an unlikely rise to worldwide juggernaut possible. Skateboarders are their own historians, which means the real history of skating exists not in archives or texts but in a hodgepodge of random and iconic videos, tattered photographs, and, mostly, in the blurry memories of the people who lived through it all. From California beaches to Tokyo 2020, the skateboard has outlasted its critics to form a global community of creativity, camaraderie, and unceasing progression.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Russell Clark is a writer and critic living in the United States. He is the author of Skateboard in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series (2022) and An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom (2018). He has written about film for Esquire, LitHub, and Read It Forward. He has also written for the New York Times Book Review, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, and others.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
150136748X
ISBN 13 
9781501367489
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
WordUnited GmbH
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