Turn your trash into… Rubbish, art and politics. Richard Wentworth's geographical imagination

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ID17754693
AuthorsHarriet Hawkins (0000-0002-7056-4982, University of Exeter, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume11
Issue8
Pages805-827
Publication date2010-11-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2010.522719
OpenAlexW2085037309
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited65

This paper analyses the photographs and installations of artist Richard Wentworth in order to examine his urban imagination and the cultural politics of rubbish that underlie it. In doing so this paper contributes more broadly to understandings of rubbish and material culture, and to geography's attention to artistic understandings and inhabitations of urban spaces. Central to this analysis are the geographies of Wentworth's work, its production, consumption and circulation. The paper attends to three nested sets of practices: the ‘everyday’ practices of people which draw Wentworth's eye, the potential of creative cultural practices for developing critiques of space and place, and the practices of the artist. As a result the paper pushes forward debates around the relationship between geography and art, reflecting on the analytical value of art practice to contemporary social-cultural geographies

Aesthetics · Art · Cultural geography · Human geography · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies

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