General Idea

A Poodle Creates a Portrait of General Idea as Three Pee Holes in the Snow

1981

Jenny Holzer is one of the most important and original artists of the 20th century. Her body of work, with its emphasis on text, is provocative and occasionally frightening, manipulating the language of folk wisdom, pop culture, and government slogan to produce a commentary on global issues including power structures, gender struggle, economics, voting, and warfare. Holzer's iconic "Inflammatory Essays", produced between 1979 and 1982, were first pasted on walls throughout heavily populated metro areas including New York, and shortly after in other cities. Unsigned and commercially produced, they subverted the conventions of advertising, graffiti, and public art. Each essay was in a different eye-catching color to maximize viewers' attention. It was also helpful when one Essay replaced an older one. The texts were derived from her childhood interest in rapturous writings. Holzer tried to emulate a similar style for her essays, yet borrowed from political theorists (notably Mao, Lenin, and Emma Goldman...

Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) was one of the most accomplished and versatile Canadian artists of the 20th century. Emerging on the Toronto art scene in the early 1960s, throughout her career Wieland would explore the role of women, the body, nationalism, and intimacy using a variety of mediums. During much of the 1970s, Wieland was consumed by the creation (and recovery) of making her single feature film "The Far Shore". Her all-encompassing approach included writing the script, directing, co-producing, and trying to finance the project, a task that she notoriously despised. The film was loosely inspired by the life and death of the Canadian painter, Tom Thompson...

Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021) is one of the most-distinctive American conceptual artists. His philosophy and aesthetic developed concurrently to artists such as Sol LeWitt. Weiner we...

Greg Curnoe (1936-1992) was a highly revered artist, bookmaker and competitive cyclist. He was based in London, Ontario but beloved across the country. He would represent Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1976. Unwavering in his allegiance to the Canadian/local art scene, Curnoe led the London Regionalism movement alongside fellow artists such as Jack Chambers, Tony Urquhart...

Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys, een konfrontatie, 137 Tekeningen 1945-1979, (Hand Signed), 1979 Silkscreen on velincarton (thin board) Catalogue raisonne reference: Weiss-Britsch 75 Boldl...

Artist: Christo, Title: Running Fences White Series: Running Fences Date: 1976 Medium: Offset Lithograph Dimensions: 25" x 39" Signature: Signed...

Ian Hamilton Finlay and Gary Hincks Les Femmes de la Revolution, After Anselm Kiefer, 1992 Offset Lithograph 27 1/2 x 32 in (69.9 x 81.3 cm) Edition of 250

Christo (American-Bulgarian, b. 1935) Lower Manhattan Packed Buildings (2 Broadway and 20 Exchange Place, from Monuments), 1968 Medium: Offset and screen print on Bristol board Dimen...