The Brillo box archive : aesthetics, design, and art / Michael J. Golec.
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hanover :
Dartmouth College Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Interfaces, studies in visual culture.
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| Summary: | "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."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 152 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-147) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1584657014 9781584657019 |