American plastic : a cultural history
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American plastic : a cultural history
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- Label
- American plastic : a cultural history
- Title remainder
- a cultural history
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeffrey L. Meikle
- Subject
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- Design
- Ecologische aspecten
- Ecologische aspecten
- Geschichte
- Geschichte
- Geschichte
- History
- Industriedesign
- Industriële vormgeving
- Industriële vormgeving
- Kunststoff
- Kunststoffindustrie
- Kunststoffindustrie
- Kunststoffprodukt
- Kunststoffprodukt
- Design
- Meubles en plastique
- Objets en matières plastiques
- Plastics
- Plastics -- History
- Plastics industry and trade
- Plastics industry and trade -- United States -- History
- Plastics industry and trade | United States | History
- Plastics | History
- Synthetische polymeren
- Synthetische polymeren
- USA
- USA
- United States
- Matières plastiques -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Jeffrey Meikle traces Americans' ambivalent involvement with plastic from Bakelite radios and nylon stockings to Tupperware and polyester suits. He moves easily from the rise of the plastics industry to plastic's symbolic hold on style and the popular imagination. Meikle shows how America's enthusiasm for everything plastic has been complicated by environmental doubts and by the plasticity of postmodern existence. Throughout this witty, compelling history of material and metaphor, Meikle raises crucial issues in science and technology, manufacturing and marketing, design and architecture, and American consumer culture. A provocative conclusion suggests that plastic, endlessly malleable in the face of material desire, merges into the immaterial reality of future electronic media
- Awards note
- Society for the History of Technology Sidney Edelstein Prize, 1996.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 303.48/3
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- TP1117
- LC item number
- .M45 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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