Konstfacks bibliotek

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*020  $a978-88-7624-728-6 (pbk.)
*020  $a978-88-7624-728-6
*035  $a(Ko)31306
*0410 $aeng$hita
*084  $aIbvz Skräp
*084  $aIb.59
*1001 $aVergine, Lea
*24510$aWhen trash becomes art :$btrash, rubbish, mongo  /$cLea Vergine ; [translation: Antony Shugaar]
*250  $a1. ed.
*260  $aMilan ;$a2007 :$bSkira ,$c2007
*300  $a179 s.  :$bill. (vissa i färg)  :$c21 cm.
*500  $a"This book is based on the exhibition 'Trash. Quando i rifiuti diventano arte', held at MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, in 1997"
*650 4$aTrash art
*650 4$aRefuse and refuse disposal in art
*697  $cSärskilda motiv i konsten
*697  $cKonsthistoria: 1990-
*8520 $hKONST -  Ib.58
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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.