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Twemlow explores five key moments over the past sixty years of product design criticism. From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, for example, critics including Reyner Banham, Deborah Allen, and Richard Hamilton wrote about the ways people actually used design, and invented a new kind of criticism. At the 1970 International Design Conference in Aspen, environmental activists protested the design establishment's lack of political engagement. In the 1980s, left-leaning cultural critics introduced ideology to British design criticism. In the 1990s, dueling London exhibits offered alternative views of contemporary design. And in the early 2000s, professional critics were challenged by energetic design bloggers. Through the years, Twemlow shows, critics either sifted the trash and assigned value or attempted to detect, diagnose, and treat the sickness of a consumer society.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Sifting the Trash
• Author: Alice Twemlow
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780262035989
• ISBN: 0262035987
• ID: 14423277
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 928 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 187 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. May 2017

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