General Idea - Unoriginal Sins

MONDO CANE. 1983.

paul robertson — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:18:39 +0000

Basel: Stamoa, 1983
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp. Announcement card with a b/w outline version of design of three poodles in a sexual menage a trois. Internally gallery information. VG+.

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XXX BLEU/MONDO CANE KAMASUTRA. 1984.

paul robertson — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:28:26 +0000

Geneva: Centre d’art contemporain, 1984
14.8 x 10.5cm, 4pp. Announcement card with the multi-colour design of three poodles in a sexual menage a trois. Internally gallery information. VG+.

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HOLLYWOOD EDITION ART’S BIRTHDAY. 1974.

paul robertson — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:57:47 +0000

42 x 29cm, 8pp. Tabloid newspaper issued by General Idea on 2 February 1974 - announced as the 1,000,011 anniversary of the birth of art (after Robert Filliou's announcement of the date). As with many of General Idea's actions the publication is mostly a report on a party that took plave in Elks Building in Los Angeles. B/w white photographs of many of the attendees including Granada Gazelle, Noah Dakota, Count Fanzini, Judy D'Or, Bambi Fawn, Mr Peanut, as well as a photograph of Filliou with a huge cake during an event in Aachen. In a section entitled "How would you fare casting Hollywood Stars" images of Jorge Zontal, Chris Burden, Feliz Partz, Willoughby Sharp and others can be found. This is in VG+ condition despite the 50 years since the event although it is folded for distribution. Very scarce publication.

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ESTER SCHIPPER. 2013.

paul robertson — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:31:37 +0000

Berlin: Ester Schipper, 2014

21 x 15cm, 1pp typographic design gallery card listing the various artists on their roster. VG+.

JOINT:

Berlin: Ester Schipper, 2014

21 x 15cm, 4pp typographic design announcement leaflet for a number of different shows by General Idea (P is for Poodle), Gabriel Kuri, Philippe Parreno, AA Bronson and Pierre Huge. VG+.

Price is for both documents together.

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GENERAL IDEA EDIZIONI, PERFORMANCE, VIDEO, FILE. 1978.

paul robertson — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:34:12 +0000

Firenze: ZONA, 1978
14.2 x 14cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a drawing of the three artists reproduced in b/w on the front and verso gallery details. VG+.

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A WHITE CUBE IN ZONA P.O. BOX (SECRET EVENTS) POSTCARD. 1986.

paul robertson — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:12:31 +0000

Firenze: Zona Archives, 1986
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Artist postcard released on the occasion of the series of "Secret Events" created by James Lee Byars, Daniel Buren, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Terry Fox, General Idea, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, Maurizio Nannucci and Lawence Weiner for Nannucci's Zona Archives. Here on the front of the card is a photograph of Lewitt's event - a white cube which was left in the post office box of Zona Archives. This is documentation in postcard form after the vent rather than an announcement card. Fine. Scarce.

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WORKS 1981 – 1992/BILDER 1988 – 2018

paul robertson — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:18:04 +0000

Basel: Stampa, 2018

21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with typographic designs - two retrospectives for the price of one. VG+>

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A NEAR COMPLETE RUN OF 28 NUMBERS OF FILE MAGAZINE INCLUDING ULTRA RARE NRS 1 AND 2 .

paul robertson — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 23:37:48 +0000

Toronto: General Idea, 1972 - 1983
27 issues including the ultra rare first ever issue.

Here we offer an incomplete if extensive run of this important artist's journal which was founded by General Idea. The numbers here include

Vol 1 Nr 1, Vol 1 Nr 2/3, Vol 1 Nr 4; Vol 2 Nrs 1/2, 3, 4, 5; Vol 3 Nrs 1, 2, 3, 4; Vol 4 Nrs 1, 2, 3, 4; Vol 5 Nrs 1, 2, 3, 4; Vol 6 Nrs 1/2, 3 and the numbers 25, 27, 28 and final issue 29.

File was General Idea's art periodical counterpoint to the USA's LIFE magazine and the earlier numbers parodied the covers of that better known publication. Content is a mixture of conceptual, mail and intermedia art including the GI's own work - often with a homoerotic element. Ray Johnson was a frequent contributor here and Issue 1 famously has Mr Peanut on the cover and there is a full page b/w portrait of Johnson on page 3 of the Vol 1 Nr 4 issue.

The first two numbers offered here are very rare indeed.

Most COPIES show shelf wear and some wear down the spines (5/4 has a few ink marks on the front cover which do not really detract). Over all a substantial and nearly complete run of this influential artist publication

Notable amongst the run is the General Idea number (5/4) which has a content entirely of three day-glo stylised poodles in various adventurous and flexible sexual positions and can be regarded in itself as an artist's book.

The price is for the entire group of 28 numbers (missing only nr 26).

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MEDIA WORKS. 1984.

paul robertson — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:25:09 +0000

Basel: Stampa, 1984
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement card. VG. Scarce.

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ELKS BUILDING HOLLYWOOD. 1974. ONE OF 300 NUMBERED & STAMPED SALKSCREEN PRINTS.

paul robertson — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 13:02:15 +0000

Vancouver: Image Bank, 1974
35.5 x 35.5cm, four colour silkscreen on board. The image was created by Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov to commemorate the Decca Dance that took place in the same year. It is a landscape view of Elks Building Hollywood where the Dance took place.

The Decca Dance was held to celebration of the (fictional) 1,000,011th anniversary of Art (as decided upon by Robert Filliou) and was organised by Image Bank as well as by Lowell Darling, Willoughby Sharp, Ant Farm, General Idea and the Western Front. There was an ornate stage show,: "a parody of the Academy Awards, featured a male chorus resplendent in tuxedos and Shark Fin Bathing Caps moving in stately symmetry to the inimitable crooning of androgyne Pascal. It could be said to mark the peak of the mail art movement and for many signalled the end of it."

This is one of 300 hand numbered in pencil copies and is stamped Image Bank on the back - the work is titled in pencil also. VG+ condition and rather beautiful.

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FILE MAGAZINE. VOLUME 3 NR 2. SPRING 1976.

paul robertson — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:34:40 +0000

Toronto: File, 1976
35.7 x 27cm, 64pp plus pictorial covers. A single and extremely relatively early number of the journal founded by General Idea. Paper is as ever browned but this is better than most and is overall a VG++ example of a rare number of this journal.

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GENERAL IDEA. 1980.

paul robertson — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:51:12 +0000

NYC: 49th Parallel, n.d. (1980)
30 x 21cm, 4pp. Gallery exhibition catalogue with five b/w images of works. Lists of solo and group exhibitions and major works. VG. Scarce.

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