Wicked! : design on the edge of bad taste / Karen Bofinger (ed.) ; [texts, Volker Albus [and others] ; translation from German into English, Laura Bruce]
1 online resource (119 pages) : color illustrations
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
