Main entry:

Lupton, Ellen.

Title & Author:

The bathroom, the kitchen, and the aesthetics of waste : a process of elimination : MIT List Visual Arts Center / Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT List Visual Arts Center ; New York, NY : Distributed by Princeton Architectural Press, ©1992.

Description:

74, [1] pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Published in conjuntion with the exhibition: The process of elimination: the kitchen, the bathroom, and the aesthetics of waste, MIT Visula Arts Center, May 9-June 28, 1992"--Title page verso.
Page [75] is p. [3] of cover.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title held at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass., 9 May-28 June 1992.
P. [75] is printed on p. [3] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-75).
Introduction: The Process of Elimination -- The Discipline of Consumption: Housekeeping in the Twentieth Century -- Cleanliness as Hygiene: The Civilization of the Body -- The Sanitary City: A Chronology of Water, Waste, and Electrical Systems -- The Modern Bathroom: Ornament and Grime -- The Modern Kitchen: At Home in the Factory -- Streamlining: The Aesthetics of Waste -- The Future: A Renewed Aesthetics of Waste.

Summary:

Lupton and Miller connect the ideology and aesthetics of modern design to the human body as a metaphor for the actions and implications of the consumer economy. They have taken the bathroom and kitchen, two charged domestic locations, as underexamined paradigms for critical twentieth-century design issues of both historical and contemporary importance. (Foreword).
"Between 1890 and 1940, America's culture of consumption took its modern form: products were mass produced and mass distributed, designed to be purchased and rapidly replace by a vast buying public. The same period saw the rise of the modern bathroom and kitchen as newly equipped spaces for administering bodily care. The bathroom became a laboratory for the management of biological waste, from urine to feces to hair, perspiration, dead skin, bad breath, finger nails, and other bodily excretions. The kitchen became a site not only for preparing food but for directing household consumption at large; the kitchen door is the chief entryway for purchased goods, and the main exit point for vegetable parings, empty packages, leftover meals, out-moded appliances, and other discarded products. By the phrase process of elimination we refer to the overlapping patterns of biological digestion, economic consumption, and aesthetic simplification. The streamlined style of modern design, which served the new ideals of bodily hygiene and the manufacturing policy of planned obsolescence, emanated from the domestic landscape of the bathroom and kitchen. The organically modeled yet machine-made forms of streamlined objects collapsed the natural and the artificial, the biological and the industrial, into an aesthetic of waste."--Back cover

ISBN:

0938437429
9780938437420

Subject:

Sanitation Exhibitions.
Bathrooms Design and construction Exhibitions.
Kitchens Design and construction Exhibitions.
Home economics United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Bathrooms Design History 20th century Exhibitions.
Kitchens United States Design and construction History 20th century Exhibitions.
Household appliances United States Design History 20th century Exhibitions.
Kitchen utensils United States Design History 20th century Exhibitions.
Hygiene History 20th century Exhibitions.
Sanitation, Household United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Économie domestique États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Salles de bains Design Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Cuisines États-Unis Conception et construction Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Appareils ménagers États-Unis Design Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Ustensiles de cuisine États-Unis Design Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Hygiène Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Hygiène de l'habitat États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Salubrité publique Expositions.
Sanitation, Household
Hygiene
Home economics
Bathrooms Design
Bathrooms Design and construction
Kitchens Design and construction
Sanitation
Interieurkunst.
Keukens.
Badkamers.
Vormgeving.
Kitchens United States Design History 20th century Exhibitions.
Commercial art United States Exhibitions.
United States
Waste disposal
Bathrooms
Kitchens

Form/genre:

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

Added entries:

Miller, J. Abbott.
MIT List Visual Arts Center.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74349
Call No.: ID:92-B2094
Status: External loan