Glass and Plastics – a Concise Comparison of Two Kinds of Polymeric Materials

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  • Günter Lattermann

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Art history, design history, glass, inorganic polymers, littering, materiality, material iconography, material history, organic polymers, plastics

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The first part of this paper will introduce the material’s rating in art history in general. The second part will present the definition of glass as an inorganic polymeric material, a concise history and its rating as a material for different objects. The third part will present a concise history and rating of plastics as organic polymeric materials. Finally both polymer classes will be compared with respect to their material history and significance and ranking.

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2015-12-01

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