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TECHNOLOGY has devised a new nudity. No starlet could half-hide under bubbles in Babette Newburger's clear blown Plexiglas bathtub. The tub stands on four carved Plexiglas human legs at the Contemporary Crafts' Plastic as Plastic exhibit, which is the most gleamingly contemporary and pertinent of any in New York...
This titillating tidbit is only one among hundreds of objects which prove definitely what Design Research, Georg Jensen, and Bonniers have been hinting at--plastic can be elegant and expressive in its own right, as well as functional...
...This plastics show demonstrates a beautiful all-plastic sub-aesthetic of this technological aesthetic. And within this even a washing machine agitator, lifted out of its laundromat context, becomes a graceful flowing-spiral sculpture...
...furniture and housing exhibits make the strongest case for a new plastic aesthetic. Obviously we all need shelter and seating. And plastic furniture and houses will be the cheapest of the lovely when they graduate from the avant garde to serious mass production. Pouring plastics into molds can be a very cheap method of producing anything, not just toys. And plastic can have a fine surface formed in molding, so it requires no costly hand finishing...
...technology so successfully that it responds to a human touch or noise almost as though it were alive. Visitors at the Modern could plug themselves -by stethoscope-into Jean Dupuy's Poe-like Heart Beats Dust. The stethoscope is wired to a sensitive diaphragm inside a clear plastic case, and every time the viewer's heart thumps, a tiny telltale mushroom cloud of ruby-red dust boils up under a spooky cone of light. Robin Parkinson's sonically activated Toy-Pet-Plexi-Ball is a sparkling basketball-sized plastic sphere that rolls kittenishly away every time...