Skateboard
eBook - PDF

Skateboard

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Skateboard

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781501367489
eBook ISBN
9781501367502
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Literary Criticism Theory

Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Series Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1: Since Day One
  8. Chapter 2: Photosynthesis
  9. Chapter 3: Video Days
  10. Chapter 4: Shackle Me Not
  11. Chapter 5: Beautiful Mutants
  12. Epilogue: This Is Skateboarding
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Selected Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
  15. Index

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