Junk
Subtitle: art and the politics of trash
By: Gillian Whiteley
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan; I.B.Tauris
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781848854123; 9781848854130; 9781848554139
Subjects: Trash art; Junk sculpture; Assemblage (Art); Art and society
Other titles: Art and the politics of trash
Description: Trash, garbage, rubbish, dross, and detritus - in this enjoyably radical exploration of 'Junk', Gillian Whiteley rethinks art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalised culture. She does this through an illustrated exploration of particular materials, key moments and locations and the telling of a panoply of trash narratives. Found and ephemeral materials are primarily associated with assemblage - object-based practices which emerged in the mid-1950s and culminated in the seminal exhibition 'The Art of Assemblage' in New York in 1961. With its deploy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rehabilitating rubbish: histories, values, aesthetics; title: The cultural life of detritus: from objet trouve to the Art of assemblage; title: Dissenters, drifters and poets: 'placing' assemblage in the San Francisco Bay Area; title: The 'comedy of waste': a load of British rubbish; title: Accumulations, panoplies and Le quotidien: French practice and the transfiguration of everyday mess; title: Cross-cultural encounters and collisions: the Annandale imitation realists and Australian modernism.