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Recycled Re-Seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap

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A very informative book with a good mix of visual and written information. Great to find a book on recycling that goes beyond "101 things to do with a toilet roll"! A very good starting point if you are interested in crafts and objects made from salvaged materials with a "majority" world bias. Good for dipping into and reading right through.Of interest to a wide age group, art and craft practitioners/students or armchair travellers.

I got this book at my library- there was a tin car on the front. I'm a rabid recycler, I've been known to save tin cans, license plates, candy wrappers and various shiny eye-catching refuse. I was super pleased with this book. I'm not even through it all yet, but have saved to my wish list in the hopes of buying it when I can afford to do so. Not only does this book inspire me to do more with my 723 license plates, but it's a big wide lens into various cultures. Who'd have known you could do that with a tire? But a lot of folks do, and that's what this book is- a book about folks. Not your neighbors ransacking the mall on the weekends. But the total anti-thesis: People who make do, and make better. There is absolutely nothing more beautiful in this world (to me, at least) than in making something out of nothing. And when it works- aesthetically, functionally, or it serves a vision.... That is something to be tremendously proud of. This book gives good description of individuals, as well as an excellent break down of countries that are reproducing beyond commercialism. Five stars.