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PLASTIC

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Christophe Cherix & John Tremblay French edition. Based on an exhibition curated by Christophe Cherix and John Tremblay at the Print Room of Geneva, this volume presents an overview of the use of vacuum-formed plastic in art of the last forty years.

The process, by nature industrial and originally associated with packaging and advertising, consists of making an imprint of a form by placing a heated plastic sheet on a mold and subjecting it to vacuum pressure.

If plastic was brought to the publics attention in the 1940s by the well-known mark tupperware, it is vacuum-formings rationality and low cost which has long appealed to

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Jrp/Ringier
390577061X / 9783905770612
Paperback
709.046
15/06/2008
French
64 p. : ill. (some col.)
17 cm
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