Junk Art
The Junk Art is a division of contemporary art , the junk ( english = junk ) used as starting material.
The term was coined by the art critic Lawrence Alloway in the 1950s, who introduced this term to art criticism based on the phrase junk culture for industrially manufactured kitsch products.
The Americans John Angus Chamberlain , Lee Bontecou and Richard Stankiewicz (1922–1983) are among the most famous artists of junk art . European artists from Neodada and Nouveau Réalisme, such as César and Jean Tinguely, also used waste products and rubbish for their sculptures. Since the 1950s, Junk Art has been creating works of art from used jute sacks ( Alberto Burri ), worn car tires ( Allan Kaprow ) or bundled newspapers ( Mario Merz ). Junk art works were also made from objects that bore traces of an uprising and usually have a socially critical subtext.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Pop Art . Center Pompidou . Archived from the original on January 28, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
- ^ Cécile Whiting: Pop LA University of California Press , p. 160-165 ( Google Books [accessed October 22, 2011]).
