Résumé : From Wonder Bowls to Ice-Tup molds to Party Susans, Tupperware has become an icon of suburban living. Tracing the fortunes of Earl Tupper's polyethylene containers from early design to global distribution, Alison J. Clarke explains how Tupperware tapped into potent commercial and social forces, becoming a prevailing symbol of late twentieth-century consumer culture. Invented by Earl Tupper in the 1940s to promote thrift and cleanliness, the pastel plasticwares were touted as essential to a postwar lifestyle that emphasized casual entertaining and celebrated America's material abundance. By the mid-1950s the Tupperware party, which gathered women in a hostess's home for lively product demonstrations and sales, was the foundation of a multimillion-dollar business that proved as innovative as the containers themselves. Clarke shows how the “party plan” direct sales system, by creating a corporate culture based on women's domestic lives, played a greater role than patented seals and streamlined design in the success of Tupperware. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Initialement paru en 1971, cet essai dépasse l'histoire du design et apparaît comme un manifeste de design politique et écologique. Contre la tendance de l'époque, l'auteur plaide pour un design tourné vers l'inclusion sociale plutôt que le profit monétaire, conteste l'asservissement au besoin du marché et prône le respect de l'environnement. ©Electre 2021

Résumé : Artistes représentés : Isaac Abrams; Acid Tests; Ant Farm; Archigram (Peter Cook); Archigram (David Greene); Archigram (Ron Herron); Archigram (Michael Webb); Archizoom Associati; Aspen; Steve Baer; Jordan Belson; Boyle Family; Stewart Brand; Ira Cohen; Bruce Conner; Dick Dahlgren; François Dallegret; Sheila Levrant de Bretteville; The Diggers; Documerica; Emory Douglas; Drop City; ÉOyvind FahlstrÉom; Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, and Marshall McLuhan; Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, and R. Buckminster Fuller; Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel, and Jerry Rubin; Free City Collective; Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, and Franco Teodoro; Clay Geerdes; Global Tools; Gorilla Graphics and Kamikaze Design; Gary Grimshaw; Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison; Jack Hatfield; Jack Hatfield and Louis Sozzi; Fayette Hauser; Haus-Rucker-Co; Alfred Henry Heineken and N. John Habraken; Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson; Barbara Isaacs; Ken Isaacs; Sture Johannesson; Lloyd Kahn; Kaleidoscope Graphics; Alton Kelley; Corita Kent; Ugo La Pietra; Bud Lee; Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D'Urbino, Jonathan De Pas, and Carla Scolari; Carl Lundgren and Victor Skrebnewski; Carl Lundgren and Jerry Younkins; Bonnie MacLean and Herb Greene; Roberto Mardones; Tony Martin; Katherine McCoy and Michael McCoy; Katherine McCoy and Edward Fella; Victor Moscoso; Stanley Mouse; Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, and Michael Bowen; Ted Nelson; Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; ONYX (Mike Hinge); ONYX (Ron Williams); ONYX (Woodson Rainey); Oz; Victor Papnek; Victor Papnek and George Seegers; Victor Papanek and James Hennessey; Gaetano Pesce; Gregory Pickup; Provo; Radical Software; Elias Romero; Evelyn Roth; Lucas Samaras; Scanlan's Monthly; Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, and Ant Farm; Alan Shields; David Singer; David and Satty Singer; Ettore Sottsass; Maurice Stein, Larry Miller, and Marshall Henrichs; Gerd Stern; Superstudio; UFO; USCO; John Van Hamersveld; Videofreex; John Whitney; Whole Earth Catalog; Judith Williams; Allen Willis; Wes Wilson, Wes Wilson and Dean Cail; and Wes Wilson and Jerry Uelsmann. Essays. The barricade and the dance floor : aesthetic radicalism and the counterculture / Andrew Blauvelt ; Atmospheres of institutional critique : Haus-Rucker-Co's pneumatic temporality / Esther Choi ; Agency and urgency : the medium and its message / Lorraine Wild and David Karwan ; From east to west and back again : utopianism in Italian radical design / Catharine Rossi ; Buckminster Fuller's reindeer abattoir and other designs for the real world / Alison J. Clarke ; It's not easy being "free" / Craig J. Peariso ; Counterculture terroir : California's hippie enterprise zone / Greg Castillo ; Networks and apparatuses, circa 1971 : or, hippies meet computers / Felicity D. Scott ; Mandalas or raised fists? : hippie holism, panther totality, and another Modernism / Simon Sadler ; How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design / Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro ; Radical bodies / Ross K. Elfline -- Works. Section I : turn on -- Section II : tune in -- Section III : drop out -- Advertisements for a counter culture -- Interviews. Enter the matrix : an interview with Ken Isaacs / Susan Snodgrass ; Toward a stroboscopic history : an Interview with Gerd Stern of USCO / Tina Rivers Ryan ; Domes, droppers, and the ultimate painting : an interview with Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit / Adam Gildar ; On covers, connections, and criticality : an interview with Günter Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co / Esther Choi ; Stirring the intermix : an interview with Tony Martin / Liz Glass ; Unspeakable signs : an interview with Woodson ("Woody") Rainy and Ron Williams of ONYX / Esther Choi ; Blueprint for counter education : an interview with Maurice Stein, Larry Miller, and Marshall Henrichs / Jeffrey T. Schnapp ; "One, two : a hundred, a thousand global tools" : an interview with Franco Raggi / Andrew Blauvelt.