Wicked! : : Design on the Edge of Bad Taste /

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

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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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Bofinger, Karen,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Picture Credits
  • Imprint

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