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General Idea: Life & Work

Sarah E.K. Smith

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Description:“We wanted to be famous, glamourous and rich....” General Idea (active 1969–1994) came to embody and employ this maxim in their art. Like many of the group’s works, this statement was a cheeky reflection on the conventional public image of the artist as individual genius. Comprised of AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal, the group took on “a single point of view,” creating a unified, non-hierarchical entity. General Idea: Life & Work tracks how this artists’ group arrived on the scene in Toronto in the 1960s and became visual and countercultural pioneers, creating a personal mythology and rhetoric that ran throughout their oeuvre. It illustrates how General Idea’s works playfully and unabashedly address queer identity, despite this facet being ignored by critics until the mid-1980s. Through mimicry, General Idea played with viewer’s expectations, reworking familiar formats and aesthetics, such as Pop art, magazines, and talk shows, in order to prompt critical reflection. Sarah E.K. Smith reveals how General Idea’s projects treat key social issues, including celebrity, media, commerce and consumption, and significantly the AIDS crisis. Equally groundbreaking was General Idea’s multi-platform approach to making art. They utilized recognizable media, such as photography, sculpture, and painting, and less conventional media, such as mail art, video, performance, installation, and artist multiples. This book discusses General Idea’s central involvement in the creation of artist-run culture in Canada and shows how, over the course of their twenty-five-year career, they redefined what it meant to be an artist.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with General Idea: Life & Work. To get started finding General Idea: Life & Work, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 147

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Publisher: Art Canada Institute

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Description: “We wanted to be famous, glamourous and rich....” General Idea (active 1969–1994) came to embody and employ this maxim in their art. Like many of the group’s works, this statement was a cheeky reflection on the conventional public image of the artist as individual genius. Comprised of AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal, the group took on “a single point of view,” creating a unified, non-hierarchical entity. General Idea: Life & Work tracks how this artists’ group arrived on the scene in Toronto in the 1960s and became visual and countercultural pioneers, creating a personal mythology and rhetoric that ran throughout their oeuvre. It illustrates how General Idea’s works playfully and unabashedly address queer identity, despite this facet being ignored by critics until the mid-1980s. Through mimicry, General Idea played with viewer’s expectations, reworking familiar formats and aesthetics, such as Pop art, magazines, and talk shows, in order to prompt critical reflection. Sarah E.K. Smith reveals how General Idea’s projects treat key social issues, including celebrity, media, commerce and consumption, and significantly the AIDS crisis. Equally groundbreaking was General Idea’s multi-platform approach to making art. They utilized recognizable media, such as photography, sculpture, and painting, and less conventional media, such as mail art, video, performance, installation, and artist multiples. This book discusses General Idea’s central involvement in the creation of artist-run culture in Canada and shows how, over the course of their twenty-five-year career, they redefined what it meant to be an artist.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with General Idea: Life & Work. To get started finding General Idea: Life & Work, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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