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Marjorie Garber: Tupperising America, 13 April 2000
Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America
by Alison Clarke.
Smithsonian, 241 pp., £15.95, November 1999,1 56098 827 4 Show More
by Alison Clarke.
Smithsonian, 241 pp., £15.95, November 1999,
“... Plastic! Plastic! The plastic – that frightful word gives me gooseflesh.’ This is Baudelaire, wickedly ventriloquising the neoclassical obsession with ‘the immoderate love of form’ in an essay called ‘The Pagan School’, published in 1852. ‘Plastic’ in this sense was a key criterion of formalist art: ‘plastic art’, ‘plastic merit’ and ‘plastic beauty’ were high compliments ... ”