Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781501367489 |
| ISBN10: | 150136748X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 160 pages |
| Size: | 165x120 mm |
| Weight: | 154 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 10 bw illus |
| 485 |
Category:
Skateboard
Series:
Object Lessons;
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 8 September 2022
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Short description:
A fast-paced tour through the history of the skateboard, from a surfer fad to a public nuisance to an Olympic sport, told by some of the world's best and most fascinating skaters.
Long description:
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport? Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark answers this question by going straight to the sources: the skaters, photographers, commentators, and industry insiders who made such an unlikely rise to worldwide juggernaut possible. Skateboarders are their own historians, which means the real history of skating exists not in archives or texts but in a hodgepodge of random and iconic videos, tattered photographs, and, mostly, in the blurry memories of the people who lived through it all. From California beaches to Tokyo 2020, the skateboard has outlasted its critics to form a global community of creativity, camaraderie, and unceasing progression.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport? Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark answers this question by going straight to the sources: the skaters, photographers, commentators, and industry insiders who made such an unlikely rise to worldwide juggernaut possible. Skateboarders are their own historians, which means the real history of skating exists not in archives or texts but in a hodgepodge of random and iconic videos, tattered photographs, and, mostly, in the blurry memories of the people who lived through it all. From California beaches to Tokyo 2020, the skateboard has outlasted its critics to form a global community of creativity, camaraderie, and unceasing progression.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
