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1 online resource (226 pages) |
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface: the Ragman's Granddaughter; Introduction: Culturalist Bricolage and Garbology; 1. Rehabilitating Rubbish: Histories, Values, Aesthetics; 2. The Cultural Life of Detritus: From Objet Trouve to the Art of Assemblage; 3. Dissenters, Drifters and Poets: 'Placing' Assemblage in the San Francisco Bay Area; 4. The 'Comedy of Waste': A Load of British Rubbish; 5. Accumulations, Panoplies and Le Quotidien: French Practice and the Transfiguration of Everyday Mess. |
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6. Cross-Cultural Encounters and Collisions: The Annandale Imitation Realists and Australian ModernismAfterword: Digital Ordure, Leftovers and Leavings; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Print version record. |
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Trash art.
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Junk sculpture.
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Assemblage (Art)
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Art and society.
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ART -- General.
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Art and society. (OCoLC)fst00815432
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Assemblage (Art) (OCoLC)fst00818997
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Junk sculpture. (OCoLC)fst00984987
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Trash art. (OCoLC)fst01155525
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Whiteley, Gillian. Junk : Art and the Politics of Trash. London : I.B. Tauris, ©2010 9781848854130 |
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9780857720214 (electronic bk.) |
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085772021X (electronic bk.) |
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