- Title:
- Provocative Plastics: Their Value in Design and Material Culture
- Object name(s):
- reference book; culture, society, and politics
- Brief description:
- Lambert, S., 2021. Provocative Plastics: Their Value in Design and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. This book covers the following: 1. Introduction by Susan Lambert - Part I Plastics in professional practice - 2. The materials consciousness of plastics by Russell Gagg - 3. Plastics' value as a sculptural medium by Richard Hooper - 4. Can plastics be a muse for future feminist innovation? By Flora McLean - 5. Deplastification? By Sebastian Conran - 6. The imperfect aesthetic by Stefan Lie, Berto Pandolfo, and Roderick Walden - 7. Witches' knickers and carrier bag theories: thinking through plastics by Joanne Lee - 8. Plastics manufacture and sustainability: start thinking in cycles by Eric Bischoff - Part II Plastics and societal use - 9. 'Plastic fantastic lover': plastics and popular culture: 1945 to the present by Mark Suggitt - 10. But they're only imitation...? plastic flowers that can disgust and delight by Kirsten Hardie - 11. Ambiguous artificiality: The presentation and perception of viscose fibres and fabrics in Norway in the 1930s by Tone Rasch - 12. Plastics' canonisation: aspects of value in the Camberwell inner London education authority collection by Maria Georgaki - 13. The changing fortunes of plastics in museums and galleries by Deborah Cane and Brenda Keneghan - 14. Materiality and perception: plastics as precious materials by Gerson Lessa - 15. Plastics and social responsibility by Susan Mossman - Index
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; culture, society, and politics
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0582
- Object production date:
- 2021
- Object production organisation:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Lambert, Susan
- Person's association:
- Editor
- Object production place:
- UK
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/f5e25f84-fc6e-386c-8cd6-e614ac3c4465, Museum of Design in Plastics, CC BY
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