claim: For six weeks, America's Billboard Top LP's list was topped by Revolver.
evidence: The Sanitation Manifesto was written in 1984 by Mierle Laderman Ukeles , an artist based in New York City who was known for the activism in her art .. Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Mierle Laderman Ukeles. New York City. New York City. It is two text pages mounted on museum board .. museum board. museum board. It describes Sanitation as a symbol of interdependent reality .. She starts the manifesto by defining Sanitation , as `` the working out of the human design to accept , confront , manage , control , even use DECAY in urban life . ''. manifesto. manifesto. She remarks that we all , whether we desire it or not , exist in relation to Sanitation , and are inexplicably dependent on it , `` if we want the City , and ourselves , to last more than a few days . ''. She then poses the questions  :. How does this inextricable bond encroach on the artist and his / her work , while living in a democracy ?. How does the artist express his / her freedom in an inherently restrictive public work system ?. -LRB- I.e. curated and strict museum showings , heavily maintained galleries , etc -RRB-. What about the freedom of a `` public service '' sanitation worker in this `` free '' society , and how do these two extremes relate to each other ?. Ukeles aimed to probe discussion about how the boundaries and conflicts of free-art and social necessity -LRB- Sanitation being one of them -RRB- define each other .. In the next paragraph she ruminates on how invisible yet deeply essential our human Sanitation system is to our current lives .. Most of the public does not see `` beyond the tip of its nose - or see where we put our waste , or see what we do ... with it , or see what choices we have about managing our waste .. Waste is our immediate unwanted past . ''. Indeed , most of us do not give a second thought to the trash we use for sometimes mere seconds , than throw away .. Even the idea of reusing and recycling is still not widespread and ingrained in most of our lives .. We are facing an impending global environmental disaster , because we are running out of space on Earth to conveniently `` put our trash away '' .. She states that to understand and accept how we should deal with our waste , we need to understand how we connect to each other across our society - how we add up .. The first step would be to step away from the stigma of the waste-worker , or `` garbage ''  /  sanitation worker .. There is a notion that our waste that they handle is somehow `` their waste '' , because they handle it - `` They 're ` dirty ' , we 're ` clean ' '' .. In reality , they are an integral part of the backbone of our society .. With this Manifesto , Ukeles explores how avant-garde art often creates unnecessary amounts of waste , and challenges what is considered Art - since Sanitation is so integral in our lives , should that not be considered an Art at some level too ?. avant-garde art. avant-garde art. Art. Art. She aimed to draw more attention to behind-the-scenes workings instead of focusing on the traditional art form - the end result .