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#04705

Mixed Metaphors

Artist
General Idea
Date
2006
Publisher
General Idea
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
Size
14 × 21.9 × 0.4 cm
Length
34 
Description

Recently produced from the maquette, found in the Estate of General Idea. Reconstructing a found vintage soft-core “lesbian” S&M photo-novel, this book presents excerpts from General Idea’s “Treatise on Glamour,” in this case the titles only, along with fragments of the found text. (See the “Glamour Issue of their FILE Magazine for their entire manifesto). Brushstroke commentary points at the subliminal “image lobotomy” taking place in the layers of leather and lingerie displayed in Exotique Island, yet the book could also serve as an enticing inspiration to fashionable drag queens.

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