GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994
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EDITIONS & PUBLICATIONS 1967-1995

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8001
Architectonic 1980
Plexiglas, 1 glass test tube: 241 x 64 x 64 mm
Edition of 50 (only 10 produced), unsigned and unnumbered
Self-published
Conceived as a cocktail holder, one of the multiples sold at The Boutique from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion.
See 8002, 8003, 8008, 8010-8012.

8002
Cocktail Cards 1980
Set of 8, offset on folded paper, with envelopes, in glycine sleeve: each 180 x 130 mm
Edition of 1000, some signed, unnumbered
Self-published
Greeting cards reproducing the colour illustrations from the book The Getting into the Spirits Cocktail Book from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion and illustrating some of the multiples that are sold at The Boutique from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion.
The cards are individually titled:
a. The Magic Palette from the Colour Bar Lounge
b. Nazi Milk from the Colour Bar Lounge
c. The Young Artist's Cocktail from the Colour Bar Lounge
d. The Golden Shower from the Colour Bar Lounge
e. Liquid Assets from the Colour Bar Lounge
f. General Idea's Colour Bar Lounge
g. General Idea's Magic Palette
h. Test Tube Cocktails from the Colour Bar Lounge
See 8001, 8003, 8008, 8010-8012.

8003
Double Palette 1980
Plexiglas, metal, 5 glass test tubes: 206 x 198 x 145 mm
Edition of 50 (only 5 produced), unsigned and unnumbered
Self-published
Conceived as a cocktail holder, one of the multiples sold at The Boutique from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion.
See 8001, 8002, 8008, 8010-8012.

8004
FILE Megazine (vol. 4, no. 3, summer 1980) 1980
"Special Global Downtown Issue"
Web offset periodical, 64 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions and spot colour: 355 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
Published by Art Official Inc., Toronto

8005
FILE Megazine (vol. 4, no. 4, fall 1980) 1980
"Foreign Agents Issue"
Web offset periodical; 64 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions and spot colour: 355 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
Published by Art Official Inc., Toronto
Issue guest edited by Sylvère Lotringer.

8006
General Idea's Test Tube 1980
Offset lithograph on paper: 612 x 455 mm Edition of 96, signed (rubber-stamped) and numbered
Published by Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto
Print is annotated "Test Tube, March 27, 1980," the date being the North American premiere of the videotape Test Tube (1979), at Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto.
See 8007.

8007
General Idea's Test Tube 1980
Offset on paper: 607 x 455 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto
Poster for the North American premiere of General Idea's videotape Test Tube (1979) at Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, 27 March 1980.
See 8006.

8008
The Getting into the Spirits Cocktail Book from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion 1980
Offset publication, 64 pp. plus cover, colour
reproductions: 145 x 110 mm
Edition of 900, signed (and rubber-stamped) and numbered, black linen hard cover with gold hot-stamping; edition of 100, signed (rubber-stamped) and numbered, soft cover with a tipped-on original chromogenic print
Self-published
The edition with the soft cover is also included in Magic Palette, a multiple sold at The Boutique from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion.
See 8001-8003, 8010-8012.

8009
Liquid Assets 1980
Wood, aluminum, Plexiglas, 1 glass test tube: 279 x 177 x 76 mm
Prototype for the edition Liquid Assets
See 8010, 8101.

8010
Liquid Assets 1980
Plexiglas (some variations), 1 glass test tube: 330 x 180 x 130 mm
Edition of 50 (only 10 produced), unsigned and unnumbered
Self-published
Conceived as a cocktail holder, one of the multiples sold at The Boutique from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion.
See 8001-8003, 8008, 8009, 8011, 8012, 8101.

8011
Magic Palette 1980
Found object of anodized aluminum cups on chromed-metal palette, soft cover book with tipped-on chromogenic print, in plastic box with gold hot-stamping
Box: 60 x 200 x 150 mm; object: 55 x 197 x 145 mm
Edition of 48 plus A/Ps, signed and numbered
Self-published
Conceived as a cocktail holder, one of the multiples sold at The Boutique from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion. Book is the soft cover version of The Getting into the Spirits Cocktail Book from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion.
See 8001-8003, 8008, 8010, 8012.

8012
Nazi Milk Glass 1980
Drinking glass with offset adhesive label in plastic box with gold hot-stamping
Box: 153 x 100 (diam.) mm; glass: 150 x 92 (diam.) mm
Unlimited edition (approximately 50 produced), unsigned and unnumbered
Self-published
Conceived as a cocktail holder, one of the multiples sold at The Boutique from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion.
See 7903, 7904, 8001-8003, 8008, 8010, 8011.