Wicked! : : Design on the Edge of Bad Taste / / ed. by Karen Bofinger.

A blood stained shower curtain, a lighter that shows an airplane aboutto collide with the Twin Towers, plush slippers shaped like penises: the world of commodities today is marked by stylistic diversity, irony, and trash – there are no limits on so-called bad taste.This book attempts to get to the b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2012]
©2011
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (120 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
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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Summary:A blood stained shower curtain, a lighter that shows an airplane aboutto collide with the Twin Towers, plush slippers shaped like penises: the world of commodities today is marked by stylistic diversity, irony, and trash – there are no limits on so-called bad taste.This book attempts to get to the bottom of the current fascination with the disgusting, the grotesque, and the provocative. Products from the most disparate realms are juxtaposed on facing pages. The result is confrontations that are sometimes surprising, with a fascination all their own. Introductoryessays by prominent authors shed additional light on wide-ranging aspects of design, morality, and irony. It is not just tasteless items that are placed under the microscope; politically incorrect ones have their place in this volume as well.
Ein blutverschmierter Duschvorhang, ein Feuerzeug, das ein Flugzeug im Anflug auf die Twin Towers zeigt, plüschige Penis-Puschen: Die heutige Warenwelt ist geprägt von Stilvielfalt, Ironie und Trash – dem sogenannten schlechten Geschmack sind keine Grenzen gesetzt. Dieses Buch geht der seltsamen Faszination des Skurrilen, Ekligen und Provokanten auf den Grund. Dabei stehen nicht nur Geschmacklosigkeiten auf dem Prüfstand, auch politisch unkorrekte Dinge finden in diesem Buch ihren Platz. Auf Doppelseiten werden Produkte aus den unterschiedlichsten Bereichen einander gegenübergestellt - die teils überraschenden Konfrontationen entwickeln dabei einen ganz eigenen Reiz. Einführende Essays renommierter Autoren wie Volker Albus beleuchten zusätzlich verschiedene Aspekte rund um das Thema Design, Moral und Ironie.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783034610438
9783110635690
9783110621129
9783110238570
DOI:10.1515/9783034610438
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Karen Bofinger.