The Globemakers
Autor Peter Bellerbyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 oct 2023
Many of us encounter a globe as children. We find a grown-up and ask, "Where are we?" They spin the globe and point to a minuscule dot amidst a massive expanse of sea and land. Thousands of questions follow. A profound convergence of art and science, a globe is the ultimate visualization of our place in our galaxy and universe. To be a globemaker requires a knowledge of geography, skilled engineering, drawing, and painting, and only a few people in history have ever really mastered the craft.
When Peter Bellerby set out to make a globe for his father's eightieth birthday, after failing to find a suitable one to purchase, he had no idea where the process would lead. He went on to establish Bellerby & Co, one of the only artisan globemakers in the world. The Globemakers brings us inside Bellerby's gorgeous studio to learn how he and his team of cartographers and artists bring these stunning celestial, terrestrial, and planetary objects to life. Along the way he tells stories of his adventure and the luck along the way that shaped the company.
A full-color photographic portrait of a lost art, The Globemakers is an enlightening exploration of globes, or "earth apples," as they were first known, and their ability to show us ourselves and our place in an infinite universe.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781639731565
ISBN-10: 1639731563
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 185 x 271 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.95 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN-10: 1639731563
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 185 x 271 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.95 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
Notă biografică
Peter Bellerby
Caracteristici
A beautiful illustrated non-fiction giftbook in the tradition of Atlas of Remote Islands and Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, shedding a light on an ancient and almost lost craft
Recenzii
'A book as beautiful as the craft it describes, The Globemakers is an inspirational story of a craftsman's dogged pursuit for perfection. It's written with the intricacy of someone who can capture the fine details of our vast planet in something small enough to sit on your desk'
'The untold story of the globe, this book is a glorious spyhole into a forgotten art'
'Absolutely fascinating from beginning to end - an adventure like no other!'
'The Globemakers is a lovely object, beautifully conceived and skillfully executed. With its digressive text boxes, sketches and photographs, it encourages the reader to linger and explore. In that sense the rectangular book echoes the round object it chronicles.Globes are like other anachronisms that reflect the way things were: solid, durable, based on a knowable past instead of an uncertain future. A beautiful globe in a handsome library is the essence of romance. In this sense, it is right that a book should be the medium to commemorate Bellerby & Co's unlikely success. Yet artisanship of this type does something else: It rewards a desire for tactile engagement in a digital era, when so much daily ephemera comes and goes with our hands never touching it. Mr. Bellerby captures this basic human impulse by reporting what many visitors to his studio request. After admiring a globe and then tentatively stepping closer, they often ask-to his delight-'May I spin it?'"
'Beautiful.Bellerby's love of globes is contagious.Interspersed with Bellerby's account of his progress are interesting factoids about the planet, the heavens, the need to update maps, the tilt of the earth, the role of the equator in both the earth and on globes, and many other tidbits'
'The Globemakers brings us inside Bellerby's gorgeous studio to learn how he and his team of cartographers and artists bring these stunning celestial, terrestrial, and planetary objects to life. Along the way he tells stories of his adventure and the luck along the way that shaped the company.an enlightening exploration of globes and their ability to show us ourselves and our place in an infinite universe.As fascinating as it is informative'
'The untold story of the globe, this book is a glorious spyhole into a forgotten art'
'Absolutely fascinating from beginning to end - an adventure like no other!'
'The Globemakers is a lovely object, beautifully conceived and skillfully executed. With its digressive text boxes, sketches and photographs, it encourages the reader to linger and explore. In that sense the rectangular book echoes the round object it chronicles.Globes are like other anachronisms that reflect the way things were: solid, durable, based on a knowable past instead of an uncertain future. A beautiful globe in a handsome library is the essence of romance. In this sense, it is right that a book should be the medium to commemorate Bellerby & Co's unlikely success. Yet artisanship of this type does something else: It rewards a desire for tactile engagement in a digital era, when so much daily ephemera comes and goes with our hands never touching it. Mr. Bellerby captures this basic human impulse by reporting what many visitors to his studio request. After admiring a globe and then tentatively stepping closer, they often ask-to his delight-'May I spin it?'"
'Beautiful.Bellerby's love of globes is contagious.Interspersed with Bellerby's account of his progress are interesting factoids about the planet, the heavens, the need to update maps, the tilt of the earth, the role of the equator in both the earth and on globes, and many other tidbits'
'The Globemakers brings us inside Bellerby's gorgeous studio to learn how he and his team of cartographers and artists bring these stunning celestial, terrestrial, and planetary objects to life. Along the way he tells stories of his adventure and the luck along the way that shaped the company.an enlightening exploration of globes and their ability to show us ourselves and our place in an infinite universe.As fascinating as it is informative'