The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification Montague Julian
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification Montague Julian A taxonomy we didn't know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist…
Specifikacia The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification Montague Julian
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification Montague Julian
A taxonomy we didn't know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague.Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little about them. Why are they there? Where do they come from?
Spanning the categories of Damaged, Fragment, Plaza Drift, Bus Stop Discard, Plow Crush, and twenty-eight more, it is a tonic for times defined increasingly by rhetoric and media and less by the plain objects and facts of the real world. Their complexity and history baffle even the most careful urban explorer.Thankfully, artist Julian Montague has created a comprehensive and well-documented taxonomy with The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America. Montague's incomparable documentation of this common feature of the urban landscape helps us see the natural and man-made worlds--and perhaps even