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Jewels 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.

Book details

• Full title: Profane Waste
• Author: Gretchen Rubin, Dana Hoey
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 76
• EAN: 9780974364834
• ISBN: 0974364835
• ID: 11592603
• Publisher: Gregory R Miller & Company
• Weight: 730 g
• Dimensions: 270 × 220 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2006

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