RUBBER – Fun, Fashion, Fetish

Inbunden bok. Thames & Hudson. 2004. 11 sidor.

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"Following the Bouncing Rubber Ball Through History!
Nearly fifty years ago I spent some time deep in the Amazon Jungle outside Manaus photographing Amazonian Indians tapping the milky sap of rubber trees. Among the items they made from the rubber were crude, waterproof shoes that made them look little like elves wearing brown colored footwear. Rubber balls for the children to play with were another crude rubber toy that has spread throughout civilization. At one time, Manaus, Brazil was the rubber capital of the world until rubber plants were stolen to start the great rubber plantations in less remote locations.
• This book, which is memorable for its unique, rubber cover if nothing else, is a beautifully illustrated history of the important role rubber has played in history. Most people simply never take the time to realize how much modern lifestyles depend on rubber.
• This book's introduction and seven chapters with tiles such as "Rubber Soul, Rubber Ducky, Second Skins (Fashion and Footwear), A Way of Life (Home Work Play), Doppelganger, Rubber Banned (Adult Toys and Contraceptives)," will spell out some of the mysteries of rubber.
• It's written in an entertaining "tongue and cheek" style that makes it fun. From Rubber Duckies to rubber girdles and fetish fashions, from plumbing plungers, washers and gaskets, from hoses, latex surgeon's gloves, to bandages to automobile, truck and airplane tires. From kid's toys to professional sports balls. From sex toys to contraceptives. From Hollywood monsters to French Ticklers, without rubber this world would be a very different place. Just try to imagine a world with no rubber tires, no life rafts, no skin diving masks, no fan belts, no rubber bands and no Trojans or Spartans with millions of rubber necked sport's fans often making bets with rubber checks, and no erasers.
• This is an interesting book about what most people would consider a dull, dull subject."