📗 Libro en inglés PLASTICS

Why modern and contemporary art and art conservation can t be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plastics Modern and contemporary art wouldn t exist without the invention of plastics From sculpture to paint and photography to film plastics have shaped every major medium of art In turn plastics have revolutionized art conservation transforming the possibilities of preservation but also producing new challenges for conservators struggling to preserve toxic and degrading material Hailed as utopian in the twentieth century plastics today are often understood as pollution and waste a central cause of ecological crisis Plastics is the first book to address the multifaceted history of plastics from the perspective of artists art historians conservators and environmental scientists Plastics demonstrates that this material cannot easily be summarized as toxic or utopian catastrophic or necessary Instead plastics define the modern world in both its possibility and failures The book also reveals how artists have been a critical overlooked voice in debates about plastics and how they have offered theories of the material through works that explore its potential and harmfulness Presenting a variety of perspectives on the world of pla