Gillian Whiteley (UK Loughborough University)

Junk

Art and the Politics of Trash

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of 'Junk' that focuses on art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalised culture. It reveals the etymology of waste and the cultures of disposability within the Western Europe, the US and Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781848854130
• ISBN-10: 1848854137
• Artikelnr.: 31193438

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface - The ragman's grandaughter
Introduction - Culturalist bricolage and garbology
Chapter One - Rehabilitating rubbish : histories, values, aesthetics
Chapter Two - The cultural life of detritus : from objet trouvé to the art
of assemblage
Chapter Three - Dissenters, drifters and poets: 'placing' assemblage in the
San Francisco Bay Area
Chapter Four - The 'comedy of waste' : a load of British rubbish
Chapter Five - Accumulations, panoplies and le quotidien: French practice
and the transfiguration of everyday mess
Chapter Six - Cross-cultural encounters and collisions : the Annandale
Imitation Realists and Australian modernism
Afterword - Digital ordure, leftovers and leavings
Bibliography
Index