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When Trash Becomes Art

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When Trash Becomes Art

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The result of painstaking research by Lea Vergine, this volume explores the meaning of the "trash" phenomenon in contemporary art from the early 20th century (Boccioni, Carrà, Depero, Picabia, Schwitters), through the Sixties and Seventies (Burri, Kounellis, Fontana, Vautier, Rotella, César, Arman, Manzoni, Pistoletto, Beuys, Spoerri), and up to the present (Cragg, Parmiggiani, Boltanski, Sherman, Bourgeois, Serrano, Cattelan). It examines the challenge launched by these artists, who use waste as a material for creating art. In an era marked by great concern about the environment, the artistic use of the discarded object expresses the alienation and distress that appear to be eroding the wantonly consumeristic social model represented by the West. Recovering and preserving refuse is a means of trying to hold on to it, of making it survive by saving it from a void, from being nothing, from the dissolution to which it is destined; it is about the desire to leave a mark, a trace, a clue for those who remain, hence touching a dimension that is psychological as well as political.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2007-06-05
Publication Date:
2008-06-30
Publisher:
Skira
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
8876247289
ISBN13:
9788876247286
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
500 g
Height:
210 cm
Width:
150 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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