Sifting the Trash
Sifting the Trash
A History of Design Criticism
by Alice Twemlow

Auteur(s)
Alice Twemlow
Uitgever, jaar
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2017
Omvang
302 p., geïllustreerd, 23.5 cm.
ISBN
9780262035989

When a designed product's usefulness is past, the public happily discards it to make room for the next new thing. Criticism rarely deals with how a product might be used, or not used, over time; it is more likely to play the enabler, encouraging our addiction to consumption.Twemlow explores five key moments over the past sixty years of product design criticism. From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, for example, critics including Reyner Banham, Deborah Allen, and Richard Hamilton wrote about the ways people actually used design, and invented a new kind of criticism. Through the years, Twemlow shows, critics either sifted the trash and assigned value or attempted to detect, diagnose, and treat the sickness of a consumer society.


Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 14 - 2: Vormgeving
Opmerkingen
Incl. bibliographical references and Index.