GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994
8701
A Mare usque ad Mare 1987
Offset on paper: 595 x 855 mm
Edition of 100, signed and numbered
Published by The Power Plant, Toronto
Produced for the exhibition From Sea to Shining Sea,
a history of artist-initiated activity in Canada, curated
by AA Bronson for The Power Plant, Toronto, 26 June -
19 August 1987. The same design was used on the cover of the catalogue and as a poster for the exhibition. The image was created by a map company,
eliminating Canada on the map and replacing it
with water.
8702
AIDS 1987
Screenprint on paper: 762 x 762 mm
Edition of 80 plus 7 A/Ps and 3 H/Cs, signed and
numbered
Published by Koury Wingate Gallery, New York
Based on Robert Indiana's LOVE painting of 1966. Produced in 1987 but signed in 1988.
8703
AIDS 1987
Screenprint on paper: 684 x 685 mm
Edition of 1000, some signed, unnumbered
Published by Koury Wingate Gallery, New York
Poster with printed signature and (copyright) date "©1987." Hundreds were put up on the streets of New York, November 1987 and San Francisco, January 1988.
See 8702, 8802, 8909, 8915.
8704
Armoury Post Cards 1987
Set of 8, offset on card, in glycine envelope:
each 165 x 115 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Post cards reproducing some of the images from General Idea's paintings in the series The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion
and individually titled (left to right)
a. When the Fur Flies
b. Down the Drink
c. The Deviner
d. Juggler
e. One Poodle's Puddle is another Poodle at Sea
f. Ouroboros
g. Houndstooth Virus
h. Le Fin
See 8601, 8607, 8807-8809, 8818.
8705
Bondage 1987
Black satin ribbon with silver hot-stamping: 15 mm wide; 22860 mm per roll
Prototype (2 produced) for an edition never completed
8706 (illustrated overleaf)
Fear Management 1987
Set of 8, screenprint on hand-painted paper, title sheet (offset on card), in silver-covered card portfolio with blue hot-stamping
Box: 885 x 590 x 30 mm; each: 851 x 560 mm
Edition of 50 plus 12 A/Ps, signed and numbered
Published by Peter Blum Edition, New York
The prints are also individually titled:
a. Cornucopia: The Birth of the Red, White and Blue
b. Dr. Brute Shield
c. The Honeymoon is Over
d. Passion over Reason
e. Nine Lives
f. Down the Drink
g. Eyeyeye
h. The Hand of the Spirit of Miss General Idea
8707
FILE Megazine (no. 27, spring 1987) 1987
"The Journal of the New Mortality Issue"
Offset periodical, 144 pp. plus cover, black-and-white and colour reproductions, with colour fold-out by Marina Abramovic« and Ulay, subscription insert,
8 colour front and end papers, inside colour card
pages, front and back: 254 x 180 mm
Edition of 3000
Published by Art Official Inc., Toronto
Fold-out by Marina Abramovic« and Ulay, Saturday,
offset on paper: 254 x 497 mm.
8708
FILE Megazine (no. 28, 1987) 1987
"The Journal of the New Art Market Issue"
Offset periodical, 142 pp. plus cover, black-and-white and colour reproductions, with colour fold-out by
David Buchan, subscription form insert, 8 colour front and end papers, additional colour inside card pages, front and back: 254 x 180 mm
Edition of 3000
Published by Art Official Inc., Toronto
Fold-out by David Buchan, On the Rocks, offset on paper: 254 x 485 mm.