The Plastics age : from bakelite to beanbags and beyond / edited by Penny Sparke.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 1993.
Description
159 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-155) and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    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
    RCP
    H - S
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