Junk
art and the politics of trash
Edición de la obra Junk
| Autor | Gillian Whiteley |
|---|---|
| Editorial | I. B. Tauris, Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, I.B.Tauris |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011 |
| Lugar | London, New York, New York, NY |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 214 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781848854123, 9781848854130, 9781848554139 |
| ISBN-10 | 1848854129, 1848854137, 1848554133 |
| OCLC | 694227066, 726836066, 775301859 |
| LCCN | 2011281963 |
| Número de Cutter | W594j |
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.