General Idea: A Retrospective



2011
GENERAL IDEA - PARIS, MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE -



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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 disappeared in 1994 - and AA Bronson, the trio adopted a generic identity that "freed it from the tyranny of individual genius." 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.

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Generalidea  Künstler Zeitgenossen  Xparis  Xtoronto