Main entry:

Whiteley, Gillian.

Title & Author:

Junk : art and the politics of trash / Gillian Whiteley.

Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
©2011

Description:

xii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-208) and index.
Preface: The ragman's granddaughter -- Introduction: Culturist bricolage and garbology -- Rehabilitating rubbish: histories, values, aesthetics -- The cultural life of detritus: from objet trouvé 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 -- Afterword: Digital ordure, leftovers and leavings.

Summary:

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. 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 deployment of the discarded and the filthy, Whiteley argues, assemblage has been viewed as a disruptive, transgressive artform that engaged with narratives of social and political dissent, often in the face of modernist condemnation as worthless kitsch. 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. This is a timely book that uncovers the etymology of waste and the cultures of disposability within these economies of wealth.

ISBN:

9781848854123 (hbk.)
1848854129 (hbk.)
9781848854130 (pbk.)
1848854137 (pbk.)
1848554133
9781848554139

Subject:

Trash art.
Junk sculpture.
Assemblage (Art)
Art and society.
Art et société.
junk sculpture.
assemblage (sculpture technique)
assemblages (sculpture)
Art and Design.
Abfall.
Objektkunst.
Gesellschaft.
Kunst.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275955
Call No.: BIB 210451
Status: Available