Beschreibung
Why is showing up to work wearing the same outfit as a coworker so embarrassing? Why do we venerate so many artists who were controversial or ignored during their lifetimes? Our preferences and opinions are constantly being shaped by countless forces. An enlightening and illuminating look at why we like the things we like, why we hate the things we hate, and what our preferences reveal about us. An enlightening look at why we like what we like.
Produktsicherheitsverordnung
Hersteller:
Random House US
areichelt@randomhouse.com
1745 Broadway
US NEW YORK, NY 10019
Importeur:
Petersen Buchimport GmbH
Vertrieb
gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Weidestraße 122 a
DE 22083 Hamburg
www.petersen-buchimport.com/gpsr
Autorenportrait
TOM VANDERBILT has written for many publications and is a contributing editor of Wired (U.K.), Outside, and Artforum. He is the author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) and Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America. He has been a visiting scholar at NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, a research fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, a fellow at the Design Trust for Public Space, and a winner of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, among other honors. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
