Carousel : an essay on seeing / Sarah Minor.
| Author/creator | Minor, Sarah author. |
| Other author | Yale University Press, publisher. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2026] |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | monochrome |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Contents | The listening room -- The delights of landscape -- A taste of the invisible -- The lost jockey -- Intermission (stab) -- The living mirror -- The voice of space -- The hunters at the edge of night -- Popular panorama -- The fifth season. |
| Abstract | "From an award-winning writer, a critical reflection on the human desire to see and be seen. Carousel opens as a professor begins delivering a lecture to a hot room. Her students have the internet in their pockets, screens on their wrists, seeing in more directions than students ever could before. But what, in fact, are they looking at? In the spirit of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Sara Minor's Carousel explores how the pursuit of panoramic vision frames power, distorts reality, and implicates both viewer and subject. Across short, loping sections that weave history with memoir, close looking with confession, Minor masterfully fuses the slide lecture with the lyric essay, tying medieval tapestries to surrealism and Instagram reels to predator drones. In language that captures the disorientation of that other carousel, the whirling carnival ride, Minor shows how the more we strive to see, the more we ultimately reveal ourselves."--page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Minor, Sarah (Visual artist). Carousel. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2026 9780300292329 |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| ISBN | 0300284330 |
| ISBN | 9780300284331 (Hardcover) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | New Books | N72 .S6 M565 2026 | ✔ Available | Want This? |