Title & Author:

Ettore Sottsass and the social factory / editor: Gean Moreno.

Publication:

Miami, FL : Institute of Contemporary Art, 2020.
©2020

Description:

335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Ettore Sottass and the Social Factory" organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and curated by Alex Gartenfeld, Artistic Director, and Gean Moreno, Director of the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at ICA, Miami, April 18-October 6, 2019"--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- Being Ettore Sottsass (A primer for an American audience) / Bruce Sterling -- The significance of standard (1949) / Ettore Sottsass -- From the Imaginist Bauhaus to Olivetti : Ettore Sottsass between proto-situationism to post-Fordism / Sven Lütticken -- For an Imaginist Bauhaus against imaginary Bauhaus (1956) / Ettore Sottsass -- Working with Olivetti / Ettore Sottsass -- My bloody valentine : Ettore Sottsass and readymade subsumption / Jaleh Mansoor -- Function and fantasy : Ettore Sottsass and the thresholds of modernism / Jacopo Galimberti -- Sottsass/Poltronova : the radical incubator / Francesca Balena Arista -- Raking it all back home : from Poltronova to Memphis, the social role of Ettore Sottsass's projects / Elisabetta Trincherini -- Furniture design for the MoMA exhibition (1972) / Ettore Sottsass -- The planet as a festival (1972) / Ettore Sottsass -- Sottsass and friends / Maria Cristina Didero -- Can it be tried somewhere? Ettore Sottsass, global tools, and the politics of creativity / Silvia Franceschini -- Twine and wind : on provisional design / Evan Calder Williams -- Controdesign (1971) / Ettore Sottsass -- Akropolis / Ernesto Oroza -- The personal is universal : understanding Memphis and its impact / Wava Carpenter -- "Afternoons at the factory," morning at the computer : on Ettore Sottsass's late works / Gean Moreno -- Works in the exhibition.

Summary:

Includes newly commissioned essays by curators and scholars, this book explores how Sottsass's art and philosophy presaged the dawn of PCs, the service industry, and the gig economy. Ettore Sottsass was an architect, industrial designer, painter, writer, photographer, and founder of the Memphis group, whose designs are undergoing an impressive renaissance. But Sottsass was more than just an important designer. His approach to object design-marked by bold colors, tactility, and vitality- was a direct response to the world of mass production and the assembly-line economy. This revelatory collection of essays by leading thinkers in the fields of political theory, economics, the media, design history, and cultural theory contextualizes Sottsass's work in unprecedented arguments that draw a line from his work at Olivetti to the iconoclastic designs he produced at the dawn of the 21st century. Divided into five chronological sections-from the late 1950s to Sottsass's death in 2007- these essays are illustrated with vibrant images of his work and archival photographs. Deeply researched, the book makes crucial connections between postwar Europe and America, and the way we work and live today. Exhibition: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA (18.04.-06.10.2019).

ISBN:

9783791358826 (pbk.)
3791358820 (pbk.)

Subject:

Sottsass, Ettore, 1917-2007 Catalogs.
Sottsass, Ettore, 1917-2007.
Design Italy History 20th century.
Design Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Design.
Italy.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Moreno, Gean, 1972- editor.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, issuing body, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308692
Call No.: BIB 254044
Status: Available