| Description |
208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: From Art from the Global Scrap Heap: The Place of Irony in the Politics of Poverty / Suzanne Seriff -- Ch. 1. American Adhocism: Wasting, Saving, and the Aesthetics of Conspicuous Recycling / Charlene Cerny -- Ch. 2. Sci-Fi Machines and Bottle-Cap Kings: The Recycling Strategies of Self-Taught Artists and the Imaginary Practice of Contemporary Consumption / Joanne Cubbs and Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr. -- Ch. 3. Hacer Cosas: Recycled Arts and the Making of Identity in Texas-Mexican Culture / Kay Turner -- Ch. 4. What Goes Around Comes Around: Circles, Cycles, and Recycling in African-American Yard Work / Grey Gundaker -- Ch. 5. The Ironies of System D / Allen F. Roberts -- Ch. 6. Reinventing the Wheel, the Tin Can, and the Bottle Cap: Folk Recycling in Mexico / Julius Stephen Kassovic -- Ch. 7. Recycling in India: Status and Economic Realities / Frank J. Korom |
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Ch. 8. "The Beat Goes On": Recycling and Improvisation in the Steel Bands of Trinidad and Tobago / John Nunley -- Ch. 9. Lightbulbs, Watchbands, and Plastic Baby Dolls: Industrial Appropriations in the Corpus Christi Festival Headdresses of Highland Ecuador / Barbara Mauldin -- Ch. 10. Serendipity, Practicality, and Aesthetics: The Art of Recycling in Personal Adornment / Enid Schildkrout and Donna K. Pido -- Ch. 11. Madonna's Earrings: Catholic Icons as Ethnic Chic / Donald Cosentino -- Afterword / Robert Farris Thompson -- Acknowledgments / Charlene Cerny and Suzanne Seriff |
| Summary |
Examines the trend of folk art in which trash and recycled materials are transformed into objects of beauty and personal and social significance |
| Notes |
"Accompanies the exhibition of the same name, which originated at the Museum of International Folk Art, a unit of the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-201) and index |
| Subject |
Art, Primitive.
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Decorative arts.
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Folk art -- History.
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Folk art.
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Found objects (Art) -- History.
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Outsider art -- History.
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Recycling (Waste, etc.)
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| Author |
Cerny, Charlene.
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Seriff, Suzanne.
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Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)
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| LC no. |
95052751 |
| ISBN |
0810926660 (paperback) |
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