An edition of Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder (1995)

Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder

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An edition of Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder (1995)

Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder

1st ed.
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A nondescript storefront operation in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology actually exists - that may be the only thing about it that is for certain. The creation of David Wilson, a man of prodigiously unusual imagination, the museum is crammed full of some of the most astonishingly unbelievable marvels known to man.

Visitors to the museum continually find themselves caught between wondering at the marvels of craft and nature that are on display and wondering whether any of this could possibly be true. Indeed, Wilson's true subject seems to be wonder itself, the delicious human capacity for astonishment and absorption out of which all true creativity arises.

  1. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder begins as a simple investigation of the tiny storefront in southern California and spirals out into a consideration of the origins of all modern museums in the wonder-cabinets of the sixteenth century, the generative role of pure imagination in both art and science, the mystifying bases of the authoritative in every field, and, not least, the actual existence and profound significance of human horns.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
163

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Cover of: Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder
Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder
1996, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Cover of: Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder
Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder
1995, Pantheon Books
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Cabinet of wonder

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
069/.5
Library of Congress
AM101.L725 W47 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
163 p. :
Number of pages
163

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1274465M
Internet Archive
mrwilsonscabinet00wesc
ISBN 10
0679439986
LCCN
95005996
OCLC/WorldCat
32276080
Library Thing
45492
Goodreads
1112139

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