The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification - Softcover

Montague, Julian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810955202 ISBN 13: 9780810955202

Publisher: Abrams Image, 2006

Synopsis

A must-have for anyone with a passion for shopping carts and a love of the great outdoors.

In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings. These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.

Working in the naturalist's tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant in their abandoned, decrepit state, hilariously incapacitated, or ingeniously co-opted. The result is at once rigorous and absurd, enabling the layperson to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found.

About this title

About the Author:

Julian Montague is an artist and graphic designer whose various art projects address issues of scientific classification as they relate to our perceptions of the natural and man-made worlds. A graduate of Hampshire College, he lives in Buffalo, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams Image
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810955202
• ISBN 13: 9780810955202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176