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Last Updated: Mar 31st, 2011 - 13:44:47 |
Special Purchase Award, The Art Institute of Chicago
“A conceptual-art compilation of the highest order.” —Kirk Rader
What were the 70s anyway? During 1978-79, writer Carnahan (aka Melody Sumner) sent out over one hundred photocopies of a blank form—soliciting one-line responses to each year of the 1970s—to friends, family, and artists she admired. Nearly everyone responded without knowing what, if anything, would be done with the completed forms. The book reproduces the forms as filled out by 100 citizens including the likes of Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Genesis P-Orridge, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, et al. A novel on each page. Back in print after twenty-five years. See Carnahan’s chapter in At a Distance (MIT Press, 2005) for detailed background.
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