Wicked! : design on the edge of bad taste /

Published to accompany the exhibition Evil things: positions of taste(lessness) held at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Jan. 16 - July 31, 2011.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bofinger, Karen, Albus, Volker, 1949-, Bruce, Laura, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser, 2011.
Subjects:
Decoration and ornament > Themes, motives.
Tackiness.
Industrial design.
Design > Catalogs.
Design.
Décoration et ornement > Thèmes, motifs.
Design > Catalogues.
industrial design.
design (discipline)
ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
Design > Decoration
Catalogs.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Is that allowed?
  • Watch out for the joke!: Design between audacity and persiflage
  • When children play mean
  • How things help put our morals to the test
  • Inverted!: Kitsch and evil
  • The beauty of guns
  • The blood mythos
  • Revulsion, sex, and fecal humor
  • Conjuring the sexual drive
  • Body parts as salvation
  • Beautiful forms will soon be lost.

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