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Goodbye, John!.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Victor, Divya, Author.
- Series:
- Gauss PDF ; 47
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art criticism.
- Artists' writings.
- Artists.
- Conceptual art.
- Artists' Writing.
- Genre:
- Artists' books
- Discursive works
- Artists' books.
- Critical Writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Gauss PDF, 2012.
- Summary:
- "In 1970, the artist John Baldessari publicly cremated all the work he had made in the previous thirteen years. A year later, in 1971, John Baldessari created "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art", in which John Baldessari videotaped himself writing the sentence "I will not make any more boring art" on a piece of white paper until the tape ran out. He used his left hand and a lead pencil to write twenty-seven iterations of this promise while the tape ran for approximately thirteen minutes. This act was also iterated as an outsourced collaboration with students at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, through the use of surrogate labor, and in the absence of the artist. For several days and under duress, the students at the College covered the walls of their gallery with their own hands and performed this "punishment piece." Their performance ritualizes the punitive disciplines of arts education while also questioning the discipline from its altar-the gallery space..."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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