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Seeing the International Via Shape
How do people make feel of the sector? In solution to this undying query, award profitable documentary filmmaker, Lois Farfel Stark, takes the reader on a exceptional adventure from tribal ceremonies in Liberia and the pyramids in Egypt, to the gravity-defying structure of brand new China. Drawing on her enjoy as a world explorer, Stark unveils a a very powerful, hidden key to figuring out the universe: Form itself.
The Telling Image is a shocking synthesis of civilization’s converting mindsets, a brilliantly authentic standpoint urging you to re-envision historical past now not as a tale of kings and wars however in the course of the lens of Form. On this sweeping excursion Via time, Stark takes us from migratory people, who imitated a web in spherical-thatched huts and stone circles, to the city ladder of pyramids and skyscrapers, arranged by way of hierarchy and measurements, to nowadays’s International of interconnected networks.
In The Telling Image Stark finds how homes, behaviors, and ideology replicate people’ seek for development and that means. We will be able to learn the earlier and glimpse the long run by way of staring at whilst shapes shift. Stark’s fantastically illustrated e book asks of all its readers: See what you suppose.
