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The Brillo Box Archive: Aesthetics, Design, and Art (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
Michael J. Golec
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Description for The Brillo Box Archive: Aesthetics, Design, and Art (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
Paperback. A study of the iconic Brillo box through the theories of design, aesthetics, and art Num Pages: 144 pages, 34 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; AK; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 203 x 12. Weight in Grams: 572.
In The Brillo Box Archive, Michael J. Golec situates the image of the Brillo® box at the intersection of design, aesthetics, and art history, tracking the familiar household item from the kitchen, to the art world, and into a critical and theoretical discourse. This tripartite approach posits the Brillo® box as a record, an archive of mid-twentieth-century visual and industrial culture. While the Brillo® box was a fixture in American homes beginning in the early twentieth century, a 1961 redesign by James Harvey imbued the red and blue box with a new wave of Cold War-era patriotic values and ... Read more
In The Brillo Box Archive, Michael J. Golec situates the image of the Brillo® box at the intersection of design, aesthetics, and art history, tracking the familiar household item from the kitchen, to the art world, and into a critical and theoretical discourse. This tripartite approach posits the Brillo® box as a record, an archive of mid-twentieth-century visual and industrial culture. While the Brillo® box was a fixture in American homes beginning in the early twentieth century, a 1961 redesign by James Harvey imbued the red and blue box with a new wave of Cold War-era patriotic values and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Dartmouth
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781584657019
SKU
V9781584657019
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About Michael J. Golec
MICHAEL J. GOLEC is an Assistant Professor of art and design history at Iowa State University. He is the author of American Design Culture (forthcoming) and the co-editor of Instruction and Provocation, or Relearning from Las Vegas.
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