THE ESTATE OF GENERAL IDEA Life & Work

General Idea Life & Work by Sarah E.K. Smith 1992 Green (Permanent) PLA©EBO, Galerie Richard Foncke, Ghent. Magi© Bullet, Stux Gallery, New York. Blue (Cobalt) PLA©EBO, Galerie Montenay, Paris. 1992 –93 General Idea’s Fin de siècle, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. Travelled to Centre d’Art Santa 1993 The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion and Related Works, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Mònica, Barcelona; Kunstverein in Hamburg; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. General Idea: Multiples, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto. 1994 One Year of AZT / One Day of AZT, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Selected Writings by General Idea  Bronson, AA. “The Humiliation of the Bureaucrat: Artist-Run Centres as Museums by Artists,” in Museums by Artists, edited by AA Bronson and Peggy Gale, 29-37. Toronto: Art Metropole, 1983. FILE Megazine, vols. 1–6 (1972–85), and FILE Megazine nos. 25–29 (1986–89), including “Pablum for the Pablum Eaters,” in vol. 2, no. 1&2 (May 1973); “Borderline Cases,” in vol. 2, no. 3 (September 1973); and “Glamour,” in vol. 3, no. 1 (fall 1975). General Idea. XXX Voto (to the Spirit of Miss General Idea). Montreal/Toronto: Galerie René Blouin/S.L. Simpson Gallery, 1995. Articles about General Idea For a detailed list of writings on General Idea, see the Selected Bibliography provided on AA Bronson’s website. Allen, Gwen. “The Magazine as Mirror: FILE, 1972–1989.” Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. Bayer, Fern. “Uncovering the Roots of General Idea: A Documentation and Description of Early Projects, 1968–1975.” In The Search for the Spirit: General Idea 1968–1975. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1997. 119

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