Description: Further DetailsTitle: The AntechamberCondition: NewSubtitle: Toward a History of WaitingISBN-10: 1503635414EAN: 9781503635418ISBN: 9781503635418Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/31/2023Description: Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From literature, memoirs, manuals, chronicles, visuals, and other documents, Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in antechambers—interior rooms designated and designed for people to linger. In early modern continental Western Europe, antechambers became standard in the residences of the elites. As a time-space infrastructure these rooms shaped encounters between unequals. By imposing spatial distance and temporal delays, antechambers constituted authority, rank, and power. Puff explores both the logic and the experience of waiting in such formative spaces, showing that time divides as much as it unites, and that far from what people have said about early moderns, they approached living in time with apprehensiveness. Unlike how contemporary society primarily views the temporal dimension, to early modern Europeans time was not an objective force external to the self but something that was tied to acting in time. Divided only by walls and doors, waiters sought out occasions to improve their lot. At other times, they disrupted the scripts accorded them. Situated at the intersection of history, literature, and the history of art and architecture, this wide-ranging study demonstrates that waiting has a history that has much to tell us about social and power relations in the past and present. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Helmut PuffGenre: Arts & PhotographyBook Series: Cultural Memory in the PresentTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Antechamber
Title: The Antechamber
Subtitle: Toward a History of Waiting
ISBN-10: 1503635414
EAN: 9781503635418
ISBN: 9781503635418
Release Date: 10/31/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 262 Pages
Publication Name: Antechamber : Toward a History of Waiting
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Europe / Western, Criticism & Theory, Social History
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Art, History
Author: Helmut Puff
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Format: Hardcover
