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Recycled Re-Seen : Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap Book

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Recycled Re-Seen : Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap, All over the world, folk artists are turning trash into treasure, using found and recycled materials to create objects of beauty, utility, whimsy, and personal and social significance. Focusing on the folk art practices of several cultures, Recycled, Re-S, Recycled Re-Seen : Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap
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  • Recycled Re-Seen : Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap
  • Written by author Charlene Cerny, Suzanne Seriff, John B. Taylor, Robert Thompson
  • Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996/10/01
  • All over the world, folk artists are turning trash into treasure, using found and recycled materials to create objects of beauty, utility, whimsy, and personal and social significance. Focusing on the folk art practices of several cultures, Recycled, Re-S
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Introduction: From Art from the Global Scrap Heap: The Place of Irony in the Politics of Poverty 8
Ch. 1 American Adhocism: Wasting, Saving, and the Aesthetics of Conspicuous Recycling 30
Ch. 2 Sci-Fi Machines and Bottle-Cap Kings: The Recycling Strategies of Self-Taught Artists and the Imaginary Practice of Contemporary Consumption 46
Ch. 3 Hacer Cosas: Recycled Arts and the Making of Identity in Texas-Mexican Culture 60
Ch. 4 What Goes Around Comes Around: Circles, Cycles, and Recycling in African-American Yard Work 72
Ch. 5 The Ironies of System D 82
Ch. 6 Reinventing the Wheel, the Tin Can, and the Bottle Cap: Folk Recycling in Mexico 102
Ch. 7 Recycling in India: Status and Economic Realities 118
Ch. 8 "The Beat Goes On": Recycling and Improvisation in the Steel Bands of Trinidad and Tobago 130
Ch. 9 Lightbulbs, Watchbands, and Plastic Baby Dolls: Industrial Appropriations in the Corpus Christi Festival Headdresses of Highland Ecuador 140
Ch. 10 Serendipity, Practicality, and Aesthetics: The Art of Recycling in Personal Adornment 152
Ch. 11 Madonna's Earrings: Catholic Icons as Ethnic Chic 166
Afterword 180
Notes 184
Selected Bibliography 194
Acknowledgments 202
Index 204


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