Junk: Art and the Politics of Trash
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (981 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1848854137 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Trash, garbage, rubbish, dross, detritus -- in this enjoyably radical exploration of junk, Gillian Whiteley re-thinks art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalized culture. In the Sixties, parallel techniques flourished in Western Europe, the US and Australia but the idiom of assemblage and the re-use of found materials and objects -- with artist as bricoleur -- is just as prevalent now. 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. T
Her discerning commentary has the power to transform readers into connoisseurs of waste."" -- Linda Weintraub, author and publisher of Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology, published by Artnow Publications""Gillian Whiteley's well-researched contemporary art history is an important and scholarly book on the new aesthetics of eco-art. These molecules endure, but increasingly they endure stripped of their utility for humans and for the planet. Unwanted stuff is proliferating along with the nouns that describe them: discard, scrap, debris, rubbish, garbage, scrap, junk, litter, refuse, cast-off. ""A finite stockpile of Earth resources comprises humanity's shared inheritance with all other forms of life. Even the molecules that comprise our bodies are merely on loan from the ecosystem. What we are and all we own are fabricated out of this common pool. Gillian Whiteley has written a thorough and compelling narrative of
"Five Stars" according to artadventurer. Great informative read.