Art Metropole

#12377

4,492,040

Artist

Lucy Lippard

Date

2012

Publisher

New Documents

Format

Artists' Books

Size

10.2 × 15.3 cm

Length

358 pages in wrapper

Genre

Catalogue

4,492,040 is a facsimile reprint of a series of catalogs produced by curator Lucy R. Lippard. Drawn from material originally published between 1969 and 1974, 4,492,040 includes reprints of all four of the catalogs from Lippard’s hugely important “numbers shows” a series of exhibitions named for the populations of the cities they were held in: 557,087 (Seattle), 955,000 (Vancouver), c.7,500 (Valencia, California), and 2,972,453 (Buenos Aires). As with the originals, 4,492,040 is made up of a collection of loose notecards containing statements, documentation, and conceptual works by each artist, to be rearranged, filed, or discarded at will. This new edition is supplemented by a new afterword by Lippard.

Edited by Jeff Khonsary. Co-presented with the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Seattle Art Museum.

First edition.