Junk Sculpture
Mostly known in the 1950's. Really started by Kurt Schwitters, the German Dada artist, who made assemblages from things found in the streets after World War I.
Junk sculpture. A variety of *assemblage made by such artists as *Chamberlain from the late 1950s, out of discarded industrial items and the detritus of modern consumer culture.
Also in Paris during this time, was the Russian artist Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine (1888-1944) whose sculpture Symphony No 1 (1913, painted wood, cardboard and crushed eggshells, Museum of Modern Art MoMA) resembles a junk sculpture of Alexander ...
Jean Tinguely's kinetic junk sculpture Homage to New York in 1960 destroyed itself in the Museum of Modern Art's outdoor sculpture garden.
 See also: Fine art, Sculpture, Objective, Painting, Movement
  
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