Beschreibung:
Anna Dezeuze is Lecturer in Art History at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée in Marseilles
Presents a short history of artworks at risk of passing unnoticed because they look like trash, or are little more than commonplace objects and fleeting gestures that disappear into the fabric of everyday life
Introduction: Almost nothingPart I: 'Dharma bums', 1958-711. Junk aesthetics in a throwaway age2. 'At the point of imperceptibility'3. The 'good-for-nothing'Part II: The 'light years', 1991-20094. Joins in the age of 'liquid modernity'5. Futility and precarityPostscript: On the humanism of precarious worksIndex