{"product_id":"signature-by-hunter-dukes","title":"Signature - By Hunter Dukes","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e30,000-year-old handprints, animal scent, celebrity autographs, air trapped in Antarctic ice, and graffiti tags are all signatures a seldom explored form of marking that reveals something fundamental about what it means to have a body.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhy do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witness as if the scrawl itself is not enough. What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify our signing practices?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSignature addresses these questions as it roams from a roundtable on the Greek island of Syros, to a scene of handwriting analysis conducted in an English pub, from a wedding in Moscow, where guests sign the bride's body, to a San Franciscan tattoo parlor interested in arcane forms.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe signature's history encompasses ancient handprints on cave walls, autograph hunters, the branding of slaves, metaphysical poetry, medical malpractice, hip-hop lyrics, legal challenges to electronic signatures, ice cores harvested from Greenland, and tales of forgery and autopens.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart cultural chronicle, part travelogue, Signature pursues the identifying marks made by people, animals, and planetary forces, revealing the stories and fantasies hidden in their signatures.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBook Information:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCategory: Literature, Non fiction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 163 x 121mm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #f90e0e;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote\u003c\/strong\u003e: Remaindered books or remainders are printed books that are over stocks and are sold at reduced prices. Remainder books are sometimes marked by the publisher or slightly damaged.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Hunter Dukes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40425001025578,"sku":"9781501353345","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/2811\/3956\/products\/1000pxx1000px-2022-10-17T140248.996.jpg?v=1665976373","url":"https:\/\/puzzlesrusmore.au\/products\/signature-by-hunter-dukes","provider":"booksrusandmore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}