Rubber: Fun, Fashion, Fetish
Editorial Reviews The New York Post, "Page Six" column Broadway is buzzing about costumer-to-the-stars Janet Bloor's new book on the history of rubber. Book Description A celebratory history of rubber-bouncy, stretchy, naughty, squeaky, biodegradable, and renewable-a book bound in a unique rubber binding.
Rubber is fun. Rubber is useful. Rubber has fetishistic appeal. It has not only been used for a multitude of everyday objects-tires, wires, handles of pliers-but has also paved the way for a multitude of advances in design, technology, and lifestyle. This complete story of rubber's origins and history shows how the power of rubber polymers-their inherent strength and capacity for recoiling to their contorted state-charges rubber with a dynamic energy source.
Filled with specially taken images by Geraldo Somozo, these pages show us rubber toys, from Wacky Wall Walkers to the collectibles of the Auburn Rubber Company; the use of this nonslip, insulating, waterproof material in every room of the house; its eerie capacity to mimic other forms and substances; how elastic fibers, comprised of rubber filaments, helped fashion designers to realize that women are not made of rigid material; how the German jeweler Bunz combined rubber with diamonds and gold; contemporary rubber in computer keyboards and cell-phone keypads; and-as climax-the steamy, salacious, seductive, (and deliciously sleazy) erotic world of rubber. Over 200 color photographs. Rubber: Fun, Fashion, Fetish
Rubber: Fun, Fashion, Fetish,Janet Bloor,John D. Sinclair,Thames & Hudson,0500284903,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Design,Design - Textile & Costume,Fashion,Nudes & Erotic
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