Junk

Whiteley, Gillian.

Junk art and the politics of trash / [electronic resource] : Art and the politics of trash Gillian Whiteley. - London : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xii, 214 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-208 ) and index.

Rehabilitating rubbish: histories, values, aesthetics -- The cultural life of detritus: from objet trouve to the Art of assemblage -- Dissenters, drifters and poets: 'placing' assemblage in the San Francisco Bay Area -- The 'comedy of waste': a load of British rubbish -- Accumulations, panoplies and Le quotidien: French practice and the transfiguration of everyday mess -- Cross-cultural encounters and collisions: the Annandale imitation realists and Australian modernism.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2012.
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Trash art.
Junk sculpture.
Assemblage (Art)
Art and society.


Electronic books.

N6494.T73 / W55 2011eb

701.03