Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning

by Susan Neville

We are a nation of consumers. But where does what we buy come from? And how are these things made? In this meditation on manufacture, Susan Neville journeys to factories and plants in the heart of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878448080
• ISBN13: 9781878448088
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Factories in the Heartland

I agree with Michael Feldman's take on this book: fascinating! The author takes you into the world of how things are and were being made at the end of the twentieth century in the American Midwest: dolls, insulin, gyroscopes, caskets, steel, veneer, cookies, globes, glass, and cars. In the process she fabricates essays of lyrical beauty, a fitting tribute to the well-made objects she explores.