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Jewels buried in a grave, cigarettes smoked in $100 bills, champagne poured into a bathtub--these perverse, irrational acts are also somehow thrilling. Profane Waste explores the workings of an unacknowledged taboo: the taboo against willful dissipation. Dana Hoey, an acclaimed photographer appearing here in her first book, presents a series of 30 haunting images that are at once ultra-real and uncanny. Bestselling biographer and social critic Gretchen Rubin uses lucid analysis and explosive examples--the actions of Rauschenberg, Jesus, Ivan Boesky, Thoreau and Goebbels, among others--to demonstrate the power of the title concept. Together, Hoey's photographs and Rubin's provocative arguments create a shock of recognition: they lay bare intentions that stand outside the conventional goals of acquisition and accumulation.
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"Gretchen Rubin is a bestselling writer of biography and social criticism. Prior publications include Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Power, Money, Fame Sex: A User's Guide."
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- PublisherGregory R. Miller & Co.
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0974364835
- ISBN 13 9780974364834
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages80
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