Provocative Plastics
Their Value in Design and Material Culture
Editors: Lambert, Susan (Ed.)
Free Preview- Provides a well-balanced if provocative discussion of what is good and bad about plastics
- Explores the value of plastics as a creative medium and in societal use
- Considers ways in which plastics can contribute to the solution of the problems they create
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- About this book
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Plastics have now been our most used materials for over fifty years. This book adopts a new approach, exploring plastics’ contribution from two perspectives: as a medium for making and their value in societal use. The first approach examines the multivalent nature of plastics materiality and their impact on creativity through the work of artists, designers and manufacturers. The second perspective explores attitudes to plastics and the different value systems applied to them through current research undertaken by design, materials and socio-cultural historians. The book addresses the environmental impact of plastics and elucidates the ways in which they can and must be part of the solution. The individual viewpoints are provocative and controversial but together they present a balanced and scholarly un-picking of the debate that surrounds this ubiquitous group of materials. The book is essential reading for a wide academic readership interested in the Arts and Humanities, especially Design and Design History; Anthropology; and Cultural, Material and Social Histories.
- About the authors
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Professor Susan Lambert worked for many years at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she curated the V&A’s first global 20th Century Gallery and initiated and oversaw its Contemporary Programmes. In 2007 Lambert was instrumental in developing an existing artefacts collection at the Arts University Bournemouth into the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP), where she is currently Chief Curator.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-25
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The Material Consciousness of Plastics
Pages 29-47
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Plastics’ Value as a Sculptural Medium
Pages 49-68
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Can Plastics Be a Muse for Future Feminist Innovation?
Pages 69-87
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Deplastification?
Pages 89-108
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Provocative Plastics
- Book Subtitle
- Their Value in Design and Material Culture
- Editors
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- Susan Lambert
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-55882-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-55882-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-55881-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 304
- Number of Illustrations
- 14 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
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