print;
artist postcard
- Museum number
- 2018,7009.157.1-40
- Title
- Series: Stilkunde an Beispielen
- Description
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Artist postcard: complete set of 40 postcards by various artists: Ben Vautier, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Christo, Chuck Close, Marcel Duchamp Robert Filliou, Gilbert & George, Jean Hucleux, Frank Kleinholz, Yves Klein, Jean Le Gac, Fernand Leger, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Panamarenko, Pablo Picasso, George Segal; accompanied with rules and instructions for playing the postcard game, No 154 of an edition of 330 published by Städtischen Museum Monchengladbach on the occasion of an exhibition on the theme of painting, opening on 28 March 1974. 1974
Photomechanical print
- Production date
- 1974
- Dimensions
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Height: 105 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The aim of this postcard game, 'to be played by one or more persons', is to match the twenty postcards by contemporary artists to the appropriate reproductions of twenty old postcards, and then lodge the pairs in the correct indexed cardboard folder of styles. The instruction page ends: 'To start, undo the index file and lay out in alphabetical order. There is no time limit. A solution is printed inside the back cover.' Each postcard is numbered, all on thickish card of identical size, and the combinations made are often a visual and art-referential delight. The twenty artists and the styles in to which they are meant to fall are: Ben Vautier [1] - Literaturism; Joseph Beuys [2] - Agitatorism; Christian Boltanski [3] - Babyism; Marcel Broodthaers [4] - Museumism; Daniel Buren [5] - Zebraism; Christo [6] - Neodrapism; Chuck Close [7] - Identityism; Marcel Duchamp [8] - Jocondism; Robert Filliou [9] - Festivityism; Gilbert & George [10] - Duetism; Jean Hucleux [11] - Requiemism; Frank Kleinholz [12] - Veteranism; Yves Klein [13] - Eroticism; Jean Le Gac [14] - Kodakism; Ferdinand Leger [15] - Proliteriatism; Hermann Nitsch [16] - Offeratoryism; Claes Oldenburg [17] - Hot-Dogism; Panamarenko [18] - Santos-Duomontism; Pablo Picasso [19] - Underbombism; George Segal [20] - Gorgonism.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019, Feb 7 – 4 Aug, London, BM, G90, The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard
artists' postcards from 1960 to now
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2018,7009.157.1-40