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Dennis Adams
COOL HAND LUKE

2011-2012

$8,500
£6,463.88
€7,455.77
CA$11,906.94
A$13,326.22
CHF 6,958.37
MX$162,580.71
NOK 88,327.36
SEK 83,817.23
DKK 55,676.14
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In 2012, along with Adams’ completion of his 42 minute video Malraux’s Shoes, he was simultaneously referencing his own extensive library and archive documenting the intellectual climate of the 1960s. Entitled Tagging the Archive, this suite of 24 text pieces are montaged over revolutionary ephemera from the 60s as well as book covers such as Abbie Hoffman’s Steal this Book (1971), Franz Erhard Walther’s Objekte, benutzen (1968), Jean Luc Godard’s Le Petit Soldat, Claude Levi Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques, Henry Miller’s Black Spring, and others. This was Adams’ opportunity to formulate a critical dialogue filled with ambiguous clues. Juxtaposed against forerunners such as Broodthaer’s Departement des Aigles (1968-72), or Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas (1866-1929), or Malraux’s Le Musee Imaginaire, or Richard Prince’s extensive personal library of vintage pulp fiction, Tagging the Archive forms a cryptic link to the underpinnings of Adams’ oeuvre. The mere act of bringing together books and ephemera in the form of a personal library allowed issues to be raised, contiguities to be revealed and borders between disciplines to be transgressed. The project composes a brilliant series of satirical and polemic “flysheets”
  • Creator:
    Dennis Adams (1948, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2011-2012
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 28 in (71.12 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    No 3 from the Edition of 5Price: $8,500
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  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Framed to museum standards and exhibited along with the video installation Malraux's Shoes.
  • Gallery Location:
    Pine Plains, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2876216399202

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