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Title Wicked! : design on the edge of bad taste / Karen Bofinger (ed.) ; [texts, Volker Albus [and others] ; translation from German into English, Laura Bruce].

Publication Info. Basel : Birkhäuser, 2011.
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (119 pages) : color illustrations
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: 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.
Summary Published to accompany the exhibition Evil things: positions of taste(lessness) held at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Jan. 16 - July 31, 2011.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language In English.
Subject Decoration and ornament -- Themes, motives.
Decoration and ornament -- Themes, motives.
Tackiness.
Tackiness.
Industrial design.
Industrial design.
Design -- Catalogs.
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Subject ART -- Folk & Outsider Art.
Design.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Folkcrafts.
Indexed Term Design Decoration
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Catalogs.
Added Author Bofinger, Karen.
Albus, Volker, 1949-
Bruce, Laura, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Wicked! 9783034607223 (OCoLC)757717255
ISBN 9783034610438 (electronic book)
3034610432 (electronic book)
9783034607223
3034607229
Standard No. 10.1515/9783034610438