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Electoral collage: a portfolioFollowing the release of the indelible Abu Ghraib photographs this past spring, Richard Serra produc Stop Bush, a print that he has distributed widely the couple in art venues and in mainstream publications, as well as upon the Internet. Serra insists that the piece is not an artwork on the other hand rather a "way to just obtain the message out," a tack that inspired Artforum to invite other artists to take up the cause. Our brief was simple and open-ended: We asked fourteen artists to make an original contribution to these pages upon the occasion of the American presidential election. A not many like Tom Sachs (whose presidential seal adorns this month's cover) redesigned and formatted a preexisting piece specifically for reproduction here; at the same time most made a wholly novel work, including James Rosenquist, who went with equal reason far as to paint The Xenophobic Movie Director or Our Foreign Policy from scratch. In either case, the artists were working in demanding circumstances. With invitations coming in early July individuals were afforded just a scarcely any weeks to prepare their submissions--a significant obstacle that Rachel Harrison and Barbara Kruger overcame through actually producing their contributions in the Artforum offices, barely sum of two units blocks from Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican National Convention. Perhaps these last occasions best provide a faculty of perception of the project's urgency. Setting aside the matter of whether the portfolio would "preach to the choir" or exist upon the peripheries of artistic or mainstream political discourses, artists felt absolutely compell to concentrate their efforts and "get the message out" Richard Serra STOP BUSH Rachel Harrison SARATOGA HORSE AUCTION Lawrence Weiner INVITATION TO THE DANCE Trisha Donnelly UNTITLED Barbara Kruger UNTITLED Tom Sachs UNTITLED Jonathan Horowitz ARCHIVAL IRIS PRINT upon ACID FREE PAPER OF AN IMAGE DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET WITH sum of two units COPIES OF THE NEW YORK support ROTTING IN THEIR FRAMES Isa Genzken EMPIRE/VAMPIRE, WHO KILLS DEATH Laylah Ali UNTITLED Kelley Walker UNTITLED. PHOTO: JASON SCHMIDT Elizabeth Peyton JOHN KERRY APRIL 1971 James Rosenquist THE XENOPHOBIC MOVIE DIRECTOR OR OUR FOREIGN POLICY Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg 1 TO 1 (DETAIL). PHOTO: ORCUTT & VAN DER PUTTEN Jeremy Deller UNTITLED COPYRIGHT 2004 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. The garbage can wraps its golden rope arms around the tree's shins. It wipes the tree's feet with its hair. The garbage can is sorry there are openings in the screen. ... When we asked they said you not at any time came here, silent crawler lengthy banished from wayside bricks and funnels self-preserver hied away from grotto lawns, feeder on whatever the ... In this issue Ontario has made a commitment to introducing smart electricity meter and dynamic pricing choices. That is commendable. The meter will help consumer to divide [i]or[/i] sever th... As the NH Cancer Plan is now three years aged the government has decided to audit whether or not it has influenced and altered the experiences of the individual with a diagnosis of cancer. M... Abstract As the presidential nomination proces has become more front-loaded and the of recent origin Hampshire primary has been scheduled earlier in the calendar year, a novel period in presi... Petrine Archer-Shaw. Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black tillage in the 1920s. New York: Thames & Hudson 2000 200 pp 123 black-and-white ills. $249 paper. The publication of Pe... Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Road Trip through Linda Oatman High Bloomsbury Children's volumes 2004, 200 pp., $16.95 Coming of Age/Death/Escape ISBN: 1582349487 With her sorrow above the d... Racial bias in 2004 continued to be the greatest in quantity prevalent hate crime with assaults upon blacks the most common stamp the FBI said. The FBI said racially motivated incidents accounted for 53 perce... Years ago at Aqueduct, my friend Joe a Marxist, bet upon a horse called Marxism in the third race. Its unevens were 8 to 1, which present the appearanceed about right. And it won Eighteen males for a two dollar bet; he... |
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