This accumulation and incorporation of the domestic had great implications in the midst of the cold war ethos. The used and contaminated materials in Brown s work served as a critique of the regimes of hygiene celebrated in the 1950s and 60s, a cleanliness which worked, according to the Beats, to mask the messiness of war. This paper investigates the importance of found, everyday materials as a means of critique at mid 20th century. Not only HP, but Apple also started in a suburban Silicon Valley garage. Suburban garages and high-tech Eureka moments just seem to magically come together.
American garages conceive more than technology.
These bands were so named because they supposedly began in garages. Recent films reiterate the garage myth as well, such as American Beauty, where the garage is the mythic setting of male power and rejuvenation. Although we as global citizens produce, and are intimately connected to garbage on a daily basis, few of us would venture to contemplate issues of waste management. When Mierle Laderman Ukeles began her career as an artist, she issued the Maintenance Art Manifesto. She has considered the role of maintenance work as invisible labor in both the domestic and public sphere for three decades.