GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994
on view

 

Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson of General Idea lived and worked together for 25 years. Partz and Zontal died in 1994. AA Bronson continues to work under his own name. To see AA Bronson's solo work, click here.

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In 1974, General Idea founded Art Metropole, an organization devoted to collecting, publishing and distributing artists' books, multiples, audio and video. Visit Art Metropole's web site.

This site updated:
2006/11/13


General Idea: Playing Doctor, 1993

Touring:

General Idea Editions 1967-1995, a retrospective of General Idea's prints, posters, books, multiples and editions, has finished it's lengthy tour, after 18 stops in Canada, the USA, Germany, Switzerland and Spain, from 2003 to 2007.

Read the feature from Art in America here.
Read Lillian Tone's essay on One Day of AZT/One Year of AZT here.
Read Lillian Tone's essay on The Boutique of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion here.
Read about FILE Megazine in Artforum here.

The catalogue raisonné of General Idea's editions, General Idea Editions 1968-1995, was awarded the 2004 Melva J. Dwyer Award by the Art Librarian's Society of North America. It is now out of print.