Fragility: A History of Plaster

by Alain Corbin

The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time - the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside. And yet materials have continued to exert a powerful influence on our perception of time and our collective imagination, whether it be iron in the late 19th and early 20th centuries or plastic today.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509565949
• ISBN13: 9781509565948
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 95 Pages