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General Idea: A Retrospective (1969 - 1994)

Artist
General Idea
Date
2011
Publisher
JRP / Ringier Kunstverlag
Format
Catalogues
Details
Hardcover
ISBN
978-3-03764-162-0
Size
17.4 × 23.8 cm
Length
224 
Description

This volume presents an overview of the Canadian collective oeuvre—an oeuvre still haunted by Miss General Idea, a fictive character who was at once muse and object, image and concept. Founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal —both passed away in 1994—and AA Bronson, the trio adopted a generic identity that “freed it from the tyranny of individual genius.” Their complex intermingling of reality and fiction took the form of a transgressive and often parodic take on art and society. Treating the image as a virus infiltrating every aspect of the real world, General Idea set out to colonize it, modify its content and so come up with an alternative version of reality.

Paintings, installations, sculptures, photographs, videos, magazines, and TV programs:General Idea’s is an authentically multimedia oeuvre, that has lost nothing of its freshness and can now be seen as anticipating certain aspects of a current art scene undergoing radical transformation. The book covers the collective’s main areas of concern and themes, such as the artist and the creative process, glamour as a creative tool, art’s links with the media and mass culture, architecture and archaeology, sexuality and AIDS, etc. Including newly commissioned essays and republished texts, it is richly illustrated with documents and reproductions of the most important projects realized by General Idea from 1969 to 1994.

Edited by Frédéric Bonnet. Texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Frédéric Bonnet, AA Bronson, Louise Dompierre, Elisabeth Lebovici and David Moos.

Published with the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. French edition by Paris Musées.

For more images from ‘General Idea: A Retrospective (1969 – 1994)’ please see our blog at:

http://artmetropole.blogspot.com/2011/05/catalogue-general-idea-retrospective.html

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