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Title(s)
Reinventing the wheel : volvelles, equatoria, planispheres, fact-finders, gestational charts ... / Jessica Helfand.
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Edition
1st ed.
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Published/Created
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2002.
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Physical Description
158 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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Holdings
Reference Library
N7431.5 .H45 2002 (LC)
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7431.5 .H45 2002+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jessica Helfand, Yale BA 1982, MFA 1989
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
"A Winterhouse Edition."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-159).
AOB: From the Volvelle Collection.
BAC: British Art Center copy in publisher's original illustrated paper covers.
"As inventive as they are instructive, information wheels--or volvelles--have been used since the fourteenth century to measure, record, predict, and calculate everything from time and space to military history and recipes ... Designer and critic Jessica Helfand offers an in-depth look at these unique artifacts, which are not only clever and amusing ... but, Helfand argues, relevant as a model for modern interactive design."--Publisher's blurb. -
Subject Terms
Circle in art. | Helfand, Jessica -- Ownership. | Wheels in art.
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Export
Rotation: a brief history of the wheel -- Iteration: circular ephemera & the new century -- Speculation: modern revolutions.
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