Lixo & Arte

Abstract

Minsiformation and prejudice have almost always predominated in matters related to garbage, wich explains, in the gamutof the arts in general, the outstanding place garbage has only eventually occupied. The exception wasprovided by the artist, who endowed with social and criative sensibility, by associating garbage and art, allows for the recue of the gargabe, provide it, therefore, wich a cultural dimension. In approaching the garbage-art concept, this article points out towards an urgent need for the coexistence of techical an cultural factors stirring changes of habit and the overcoming of deep-rooted prejudices.