The Surrealist Ragpicker

..Recall that it was Breton and other Surrealists who invented the secondhand 
store as a temple of vanguard taste and upgraded visits to flea markets into 
a mode of aesthetic pilgrimage. 

The Surrealist Ragpicker's acuity was directed to finding beautiful 
what other people found ugly or without interest and relevance: 
bric-a-brac, naive or pop objects, urban debris.. 

 
Susan Sontag