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The Plastics age : from bakelite to beanbags and beyond / edited by Penny Sparke.
- Title
- The Plastics age : from bakelite to beanbags and beyond / edited by Penny Sparke.
- Publication
- Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 1993.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sparke, Penny
- Description
- 159 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-155) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The technology of early plastics / Susan Mossman -- The first plastic / Robert Friedel -- Plastics in the American machine age 1920-1950 / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Plastics and the future / V.E. Yarsley and E.G. Couzens -- Industrial design and commercial art / John Gloag -- Perceptions of plastics : a study of plastics in Britain 1945-1956 / Claire Catterall -- The Italian way to plastics / Giampiero Bosoni -- Plastics and pop culture / Penny Sparke -- Triumph of software / Reyner Banham -- Plastic / Roland Barthes -- Natural wood, cultural wood / Jean Baudrillard -- Objects and their skin / Ezio Manzini -- Plastic laminate / Barbara Radice -- And of plastics? / Ezio Manzini -- Plastics in the '80s / Sylvia Katz.
- ISBN
- 087951471X (hc)
- 0879514884 (pb)
- LCCN
- ^^^92035039^
- OCLC
- 26809605
- SCSB-9964651
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library