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Titel: The Finger
Auteur: Angus Trumble
ISBN: 9780300166668
Conditie: Als nieuw

Examining the finger from every possible angle, this title asks questions about the finger such as: how do fingers work, and why do most of us have five on each hand? Why do we bite our nails? It also includes meditations on the finger's essential role in writing, speech, sports, crime, law, sex and, of course, the eponymous show of contempt.



In this collision between art and science, history and pop culture, the acclaimed art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle. His inquiries into its representation in art take us from Buddhist statues in Kyoto to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, from cave art to Picasso's Guernica, from Van Dyck's and Rubens' winning ways with gloves to the longstanding French taste for tapering digits. But Trumble also asks intriguing questions about the finger in general: how do fingers work, and why do most of us have five on each hand? Why do we bite our nails? This witty, odd and fascinating book is filled with diverse anecdotes about cow-milking, the fingerprint of a grave robber in King Tut's tomb and a woman in Trumble's local bank whose immensely long, coiled fingernails do not prevent her from signing a check. Side by side with historical discussions of rings and gloves and nail varnish are meditations on the finger's essential role in writing, speech, sports, crime, law, sex and, of course, the eponymous show of contempt.

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