Mr. Rauschenberg, early on, recognized a poetry in urban detritus.

But the water itself is somewhat dirty, with clumps of algae and assorted urban detritus.

He picked up the trash of other people and built a whole village out of this urban detritus.

About 100 pieces are now on display in the garden, which had been an abandoned lot filled with the usual urban detritus.

Paradoxically, he also depicts vast garbage dumps that disfigure the land with masses of urban detritus.

Tons of urban detritus had gone to make a little mountain ridge, a ten-foot-high debris cordon planted with flags.

Since then, countless artists, for reasons subversive and otherwise, have turned to urban detritus for inspiration.

They were at it again all over town the other day, singing, dancing, sailing, drawing and sifting through urban detritus for evidence of the past.

Social space, urban detritus, the tension between hand and machine are tackled in psychologically and perceptually nuanced works.

Meanwhile, passers-by toss cans, bottles, half-eaten sandwiches and other urban detritus into the lot.