general idea group (3 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Victor Coleman, David Young, and the conceptual art group General Idea Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Open Letter: Second Series, Number Two (Summer 1972), a Canadian tri-quarterly review of writing and sources edited by Frank Davey, with contributing editors George Bowering, Victor Coleman, Stan Persky, and Fred Wah. This issue-subtitled Olson and Others-features Warren Tallman's influential essay Proprioception in Charles Olson's Poetry, Matthew Corrigan's Charles Olson: Materials for a Nexus, bpNichol's early explorations of Gertrude Stein's theories, and a collaborative visual-textual piece by Victor Coleman, David Young, and the conceptual art group General Idea. Printed in Canada at the Coach House Press, one of the central institutions of the Canadian avant-garde. Editor: Frank Davey Publisher: Coach House Press, Toronto, Ontario Year: 1972 Special Attributes: Second Series, No. 2, Summer 1972; essays on Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein; contributors include Warren Tallman, bpNichol, Victor Coleman, and General Idea Topic: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Experimental Writing Subject: Canadian avant-garde, Black Mountain influence, Concrete poetry, 20th-century poetics Keywords: Frank Davey, Warren Tallman, Charles Olson, bpNichol, Victor Coleman, Coach House Press, Canadian literature, avant-garde magazine, 1970s poetry journals Condition: Very good, clean and bright interior, light handling and mild fading to front wrap.

142 pp.; 25.5 x 18 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size 3000; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Next to last issue of File Megazine critiques the art market on the heals of the sale of Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece Sunflowers for a then record price of $39,921,750 on March 30, 1987 at Christie's. From the introduction editorial: "This issue of FILE we present as a commodity and it is a commodity. The artists in this issue use the language of the subject of commodification as the canvas upon which they layer their artworks." Contents include: "Dollar Bills," inside covers by Andy Warhol; "O.T.," endpapers by Rosemarie Trockel; "Misty Two," by Richard Prince; "Editorial," by General Idea; " Capital Pictures," by Marianne Staniszewski; artists' projects by Sylvia Kolbowski, Haim Steinbach, David Buchan and Barbara Kruger; "Generic Still Lifes," by Antonio Muntadas; "Personals," by Alan Belcher; "Anti-Baudrillard," by Group Material; "Ad(veritas)ments;" "Bunny Bleu" by Richard Prince and "Untitled (Cowboys) by Richard Prince on the back cover. References : No. 8708 in "General Idea : Editions 1967 - 1995" by General Idea, Barbara Fischer, AA Bronson, Fern Bayer, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Lionel Bovier, Cathy Busby, Christophe Cherix, Joshua Decter, Diedrich Diederichsen, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Philip Monk, Stephan Trescher. Toronto, Canada : Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2003, pp. 185. "In Numbers : Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955" by Andrew Roth, Philip Aarons, Victor Brand, Clive Phillpot, Neville Wakefield, Nancy Princenthal, William S. Wilson. Zurich / New York, Switzerland / NY : JRP - Ringier / PPP Editions, 2008, pp. 176. Good. Bumping to top right corner of recto with rubbing of cover and spine edges. 8 mm. of rubbing to first page; 7.8 cm. dog-ear to top left verso corner; 2.9 cm. dog-ear to top right corners of pages 1-10; 7.9 cm. dog-ear to top right corner of pages 141-150. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Paperback. Condición: As New.