Skateboard (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501367489)

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.

Author: Jonathan Russell Clark
ISBN-10: 150136748X
ISBN-13: 9781501367489
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2022
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 6.50h x 4.86w x 0.52d