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Project name Rubber: Fun, Fashion, Fetish
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Persons Janet Bloor, John D. Sinclair
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Period 2004
URL http://www.amazon.com/Rubber-Fashion-Fetish-Janet-Bloor/dp/0500284903
Tags rubber, new material, jewelry, images, book, new applications,
Text 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; andóas climaxóthe steamy, salacious, seductive, (and deliciously sleazy) erotic world of rubber. Over 200 color photographs.