The Stanford Daily

‘Object Lessons’: A crash course in modern Chinese brush painting

Huang Binhong (China, 1864–1955), Mountain Landscape, c. 1953. Ink and color on paper. Gift of Dr. Shirley Sun (A.B., 1964; A.M., 1969; Ph.D, 1974), 1994.113 The ...
Publishers Weekly

PW Close-Up: Object Lessons

Have you ever wondered who invented the pencil? Or what led to the creation of the swimming pool? Object Lessons is a beautifully designed book series—published by Bloomsbury Academic—that explores ...
insider.si.edu

Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/history-of-education-quarterly/article/sarah-anne-carter-object-lessons-how-nineteenthcentury-americans-learned-to-make-sense ...
The New Criterion

Object lessons

My grandmother has a lipstick she’s been using for thirty years. The younger me used to watch, fascinated and a little perplexed, as she pulled the gold case out of her vintage Chanel handbag and ...