Counter Culture: the Allure of Mini-Mannequins
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Counter Culture: the Allure of Mini-Mannequins

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Barcode Formats: ISBN-10 1568983042, ISBN-13 9781568983042
Category: Media > Books
Author: Steven Heller
Description:   If sex sells, what better come-on for merchants of the repressed decades of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s than the come-hither wink of a coquettish countertop mannequin? In Counter Culture, Steven Heller and Louise Fili take us on a colorful peep show of these sexy, sometimes erotic, but always fetishistic, plaster bodies and body parts. Theirs is a surreal look at how mannequins play on consumers' desires, acting as agents of seduction, beckoning us toward that ultimate act--the consumption of goods. In this entertaining book, Heller and Fili unearth the fault line between sex and shopping--between voyeurism and "just looking"--that underlies much of modern commerce.
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  • MPN: 9781568983042
  • ASIN: 1568983042
  • Size: 1.01 x 4.75 x 440
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