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Simon Garfield
In Miniature
How Small Things Illuminate The World

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In Miniature is a delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about the world at large. Here you will find the secret histories of tiny Eiffel Towers, the truth about the flea circus, a doll s house made for a queen, eerie tableaux of crime scenes, miniature food, model villages and railways, and more. Simon Garfield brings together history, psychology, art and obsession, to explore what fuels the strong appeal of miniature objects among collectors, modellers and fans, and teaches us that there is greatness in the diminutive.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 304 ● ISBN 9781786890788 ● Verlag Canongate Books ● Erscheinungsjahr 2018 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 6398956 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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