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Wastiary , or Bestiary of Waste, is a creative exercise that occupies letters, numbers, and symbols of Western academic language to compose a list of 35 short entries on the uncomfortable but pressing topic of waste in the contemporary world. The collection is richly illustrated with artwork, photography, collage and mixed media. The book is a heterodox compendium of 'beasts of waste', playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on various kinds of animal. It conveys the message that various forms of waste and pollution have achieved a beast-like or untameable quality, at times pungently transferring to considerations of 'the human', or humans treated as waste. Praise for Wastiary ' Wastiary is a rich, stimulating and beautifully composed volume, not least courtesy of a very welcome emphasis on the visual. The comprehensiveness and variety of views, styles of writing, as much as disciplinary stances, and the embedded diversity of the book make for a recognisable intervention into waste/discard studies that can certainly capture the eye of the expert but also pique the appetite of the novice.' Michele Acuto, University of Melbourne

Pollution in art --- Refuse and refuse disposal in art

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Wastiary, or Bestiary of Waste, is a creative exercisethat occupies letters, numbers, and symbols of Western academiclanguage to compose a list of 35 short entries on the uncomfortablebut pressing topic of waste in the contemporary world. Thecollection is richly illustrated with artwork, photography, collageand mixed media. The book is a heterodox compendium of 'beasts ofwaste', playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on variouskinds of animal. It conveys the message that various forms of wasteand pollution have achieved a beast-like or untameable quality, attimes pungently transferring to considerations of 'the human', orhumans treated as waste.

Pollution in art --- Refuse and refuse disposal in art --- Déchet --- Pollution --- Pollution in art. --- African Americans --- Study and teaching.

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An argument for the centrality of the visual culture of waste—as seen in works by international contemporary artists—to the study of our ecological condition.

Ecological crisis has driven contemporary artists to engage with waste in its most non-biodegradable forms: plastics, e-waste, toxic waste, garbage hermetically sealed in landfills. In this provocative and original book, Amanda Boetzkes links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological thinking. Often, when art is analyzed in relation to the political, scientific, or ecological climate, it is considered merely illustrative. Boetzkes argues that art is constitutive of an ecological consciousness, not simply an extension of it. The visual culture of waste is central to the study of the ecological condition.

Boetzkes examines a series of works by an international roster of celebrated artists, including Thomas Hirschhorn, Francis Alÿs, Song Dong, Tara Donovan, Agnès Varda, Gabriel Orozco, and Mel Chin, among others, mapping waste art from its modernist origins to the development of a new waste imaginary generated by contemporary artists. Boetzkes argues that these artists do not offer a predictable or facile critique of consumer culture. Bearing this in mind, she explores the ambivalent relationship between waste (both aestheticized and reviled) and a global economic regime that curbs energy expenditure while promoting profitable forms of resource consumption.

Refuse and refuse disposal in art. --- Environmentalism in art. --- Art, Modern --- Déchets --- Environnementalisme dans l'art --- Elimination, dans l'art --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Art --- environmental protection --- pollution --- green design [environmental concept] --- refuse --- climate change