- Title:
- The Plastics Age: From Bakelite to Beanbags and Beyond.
- Object name(s):
- reference book; culture, society, and politics
- Brief description:
- Sparke, P. (Ed.), 1993. The Plastics Age: From Bakelite to Beanbags and Beyond. Overlook Press, Woodstock, New York. This book covers the following: Introduction: On the meanings of plastics in the twentieth century - Part 1: Plastics pre-history 1860-1914 - Introduction - Technology of early plastic by Susan Mossman - The first plastic by Robert Friedel - Part 2: Plastics and modernity 1915-1960 - Introduction - Plastics in the American Machine Age 1920-1950 by Jeffrey L. Meikle - Plastics and the future by V.E Yarsley and E.G Couzens - Industrial design and commercial art by John Gloag - Perceptions of plastics: a study of plastics in Britain 1945-1956 by Claire Catterall - The Italian way to plastics - Giampiero Bosoni - Part 3: Plastics and post-modernity 1961-1990 - Introduction - Plastics and pop culture by Penny Sparke - Triumph of software by Reyner Banham - Plastic by Roland Barthes - Natural wood, cultural wood by Jean Baudrillard - Objects and their skin by Ezio Manzini - Plastics laminate by Barbara Radice - And of Plastics? by Ezio Manzini - Plastics in the '80s by Sylvia Katz - Conclusion - Bibliography - Picture credits - Index
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; culture, society, and politics
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0292
- Object production date:
- 1993
- Object production organisation:
- Overlook Press
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Sparke, Penny
- Person's association:
- Editor
- Object production place:
- UK
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/61b08034-f69a-3e6f-bc83-72cbe5f90630
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/61b08034-f69a-3e6f-bc83-72cbe5f90630, Museum of Design in Plastics, CC BY
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