- Anarchism, Representation, and Culture
Cohn, Jesse
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
A discussion of the role of anarchism in the formation of modernist avant-garde aesthetics.
- Architecture for People
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
- Design for the Real World
Human Ecology and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
While two-thirds of the world's population lives in poverty, valuable human and natural resources are used to produce: fur-covered toilet seats, electronic nail polish dryers, diapers for parakeets, and mink-oil fertilizer for "the plant that has everything." Papanek discusses why the things you buy are expensive, badly designed, unsafe, and often don't work. He proposes alternative ways of thinking and alternative designs for safe, inexpensive, and desperately needed products.
- The Design of Everyday Things
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
- Film as a Subversive Art
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
- Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- People's Aesthetics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
An essay on self-proclaimed "progressives" and their hypocritical defense of cultural hierarchies and consumption of popular or lower middle class culture for camp value. He opines that the distinction between craft and art is class based.
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