| Project name | Rubber: Fun, Fashion, Fetish |
|---|---|
| Organisation | |
| Persons | Janet Bloor, John D. Sinclair |
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| Country | |
| 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. |
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