General Idea
Life & Work by Sarah E.K. Smith
Celant, Germano. “General Idea i Canadada: Un Gruppo Canadese.” Domus (Milan:
October 1974), 52.
Cronin, J. Keri, and Kirsty Robertson. “General Idea and AIDS.” In Imagining
Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada, edited by J. Keri Cronin and Kirsty
Robertson, 95–99. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011.
Decter, Joshua. “Infect the Public Domain with an Imagevirus: General Idea’s AIDS
Project.” Afterall 15 (spring/summer 2007): 96–105.
Monk, Philip. “Some Like it Haute: The General Idea Retrospective at the Art Gallery of
Ontario.” C Magazine 112 (winter 2011–12): 10–15.
–––. “Crisis (and Coping) in the Work of General Idea.” Filip 16 (spring 2012): 107–112.
Moser, Gabrielle. “Exhibition-Making with Ghosts: The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion.”
Filip 11 (spring 2004).
Solomon, Virginia. “What is Love?: Queer Subcultures and the Political Present.” e-flux
(2013), http://www.e-flux.com/journal/what-is-love-queer-subcultures-and-the-politicalpresent.
Welch, Adam. “Time for Another Rewrite: The AGO’s General Idea: Haute Culture, A
Retrospective 1969–1994.” The Toronto Review of Books (November 15, 2011),
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Key Interviews
Decter, Joshua, and General Idea. Journal of Contemporary Art, 4.1 (1991): 49–64,
http://www.jca-online.com/genidea.html.
Enright, Robert, and AA Bronson. “Particularizing Some General Ideas: An Interview
with AA Bronson.” Border Crossings 23.1 (February 2004): 28–44.
General Idea fonds. National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives. Manuscripts
Series. Manuscripts for Publications and Artworks, Louise Dompierre interview, New
York, July 26, 1991.
Sharp, Willoughby. “The Gold-Diggers of ’84: An Interview with General Idea, Toronto.”
Avalanche (winter/spring 1973): 14–21.
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