Profane WasteJewels buried in a grave, cigarettes smoked in $100 bills, champagne poured into a bathtub--these perverse, irrational acts are also somehow thrilling. Profane Waste explores the workings of an unacknowledged taboo: the taboo against willful dissipation. Dana Hoey, an acclaimed photographer appearing here in her first book, presents a series of 30 haunting images that are at once ultra-real and uncanny. Bestselling biographer and social critic Gretchen Rubin uses lucid analysis and explosive examples--the actions of Rauschenberg, Jesus, Ivan Boesky, Thoreau and Goebbels, among others--to demonstrate the power of the title concept. Together, Hoey's photographs and Rubin's provocative arguments create a shock of recognition: they lay bare intentions that stand outside the conventional goals of acquisition and accumulation. |
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User Review - ladyoflorien - LibraryThingThis was an essay on profane waste with photos meant to clarify the concept. Ok but the author dances around the subject and never states her position. It came across as a really long dictionary entry defining the various types of waste. Read full review
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User Review - ladyoflorien - LibraryThingThis was an essay on profane waste with photos meant to clarify the concept. Ok but the author dances around the subject and never states her position. It came across as a really long dictionary entry defining the various types of waste. Read full review
Contents
THE TABOO AGAINST WASTE | 3 |
ORDINARY WASTE AND PROFANE WASTE | 15 |
WASTE THAT IS NOT PROFANE WASTE | 23 |
SPECIES OF PROFANE WASTE HEEDLESS WASTE | 39 |
SPECIES OF PROFANE WASTE DEFIANT WASTE | 47 |
SPECIES OF PROFANE WASTE DENYING WASTES | 59 |
CONCLUSION | 63 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Profane Waste |
| Author | Gretchen Rubin |
| Photographs by | Dana Hoey |
| author of text accompanying photos | Gretchen Rubin |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2006 |
| ISBN | 0974364835, 9780974364834 |
| Length | 65 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / Individual Artists / General Business & Economics / Consumer Behavior Business & Economics / Economics / Macroeconomics Photography / Individual Photographers / General Photography / Subjects & Themes / General |
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