GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994
7401
The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion Foundation
1974
Offset on onionskin paper: 250 x 200 mm
Edition size unknown, of which 20 plus 3 A/Ps are signed and numbered
Self-published
Letterhead design by General Idea for their fictional foundation.
7402
Art Metropole Letterhead
1974
Offset on onionskin paper: 250 x 200 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Published by Art Metropole, Toronto
Letterhead designed by General Idea for Art Metropole, an artist-run centre they founded in 1974 for the
collection and distribution of artists' books, videotapes, and multiples. The artists saw the centre as a work
by General Idea.
7403
FILE Megazine
(vol. 2, no. 5, February 1974)
1974
"Annual Artists' Directory Issue"
Web offset periodical, 64 pp. plus cover, with flexidisc insert by The Residents: 355 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
Published by Art Official Inc., Toronto
Includes insert by The Residents, Meet the Residents, flexidisc: 185 x 235 mm.
See 7901.
7404
Hand of the Spirit
1974
Clear Plexiglas cut-out on Plexiglas rod handle
(two lengths): 890 x 228 mm and 1095 x 228 mm
Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered
Self-published
Produced for the performance Blocking staged
at Western Front, Vancouver, 19 June 1974 and
videotaped. The "hand" was a project of General Idea
based on an object found by Image Bank's Vincent Trasov and used as a prop by Michael Morris
a.k.a. Marcel Dot/Marcel Idea for his submission to The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant. Image illustrated is
Untitled
(gelatin silver print: 432 x 279 mm).
See 7105, 7517, 9202.
7405
Lux-On
1974
Screenprint on paper: 464 x 577 mm
Edition of 45 plus A/Ps, signed (rubber-stamped) and numbered
Self-published
The print is rubber-stamped "Lux-On" and the paper is embossed with the logo of the Cranbrook Academy of the Arts,
Bloomfield Hills, U.S.A., where it was produced during an artist-in-residence program. There is a slight variation in paper stock.
See 7304.