General Idea
Life & Work by Sarah E. K. Smith
XXX( bleu), 1984. Installation view from Haute Culture: General Idea— A Retrospective, 1969 – 1994, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2011 – 12. Photograph courtesy of Art Gallery of Ontario and General Idea. Art Gallery of Ontario, gift of Sandra Simpson, 1993( 94 / 5). © General Idea.
XXX Voto( for the Spirit of Miss General Idea), 1995. Courtesy of General Idea and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © General Idea. Photo credit: Cathy Busby.
¥ en Boutique, 1989. Installation view from General Idea, Galleria Massimo De Carlo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, 1990. Fonds national d’ art contemporain, for the collection of Musée national d’ Art moderne— Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. © General Idea. Photo credit: General Idea.
Credits for Photographs and Works by Other Artists
Car Crash, 1960, by Jim Dine. Performed at the Reuben Gallery, New York, November 16, 1960. Photograph by Robert R. McElroy. Courtesy of Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles( 2014. M. 7). © J. Paul Getty Trust.
Felix, June 5, 1994, 1994, by AA Bronson. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa( no. 40633). © AA Bronson.
General Idea in front of an installation of Test Pattern: T. V. Dinner Plates from the Miss General Idea Pavillion( detail), 1988. Installation view, SPIRAL( Wacoal Art Centre), Tokyo, 1988. Photograph by Tohru Kogure. Courtesy of Bijutsu Techo, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha. Collection General Idea, General Idea fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa.
General Idea relaxing in Reconstructing Futures, 1977. Photograph by Jeremiah S. Chechik. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1983( no. 28286.1-31). Courtesy of General Idea.
Glamour is Theft: A User’ s Guide to General Idea by Philip Monk.( Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2012). Courtesy of the Art Gallery of York University.
Jorge Zontal, c. 1972. Photographer unknown. Collection General Idea, General Idea fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa.
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