In The Brillo Box Archive, Michael J. Golec situates the image of the Brillo(R) box at the intersection of design, aesthetics, and art history, tracking the familiar household item from the kitchen, to the art world, and into a critical and theoretical discourse. This tripartite approach posits the Brillo(R) box as a record, an archive of mid-twentieth-century visual and industrial culture. While the Brillo(R) box was a fixture in American homes beginning in the early twentieth century, a 1961 redesign by James Harvey imbued the red and blue box with a new wave of Cold War-era patriotic...