Electoral collage: a portfolio.Following the release of the indelible Abu Ghraib See Abu Ghraib prison and Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The city of Abu Ghraib (BGN/PCGN romanization: Abū Ghurayb; أبو غريب in Arabic) in the Anbar Governorate of Iraq is located 32 kilometres (20 mi) west of photographs this past spring, Richard Serra Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. produced Stop Bush, a print that he has distributed widely both in art venues and in mainstream publications, as well as on the Internet. Serra insists that the piece is not an artwork but rather a "way to just get 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 on the occasion of the American presidential election. A few, like Tom Sachs (whose presidential seal adorns this month's cover), redesigned and formatted a preexisting pre·ex·ist or pre-ex·ist v. pre·ex·ist·ed, pre·ex·ist·ing, pre·ex·ists v.tr. To exist before (something); precede: Dinosaurs preexisted humans. v.intr. piece specifically for reproduction here; yet most made a wholly new work, including James Rosenquist, who went so far as to paint The Xenophobic xen·o·phobe n. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples. xen 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 few weeks to prepare their submissions--a significant obstacle that Rachel Harrison and Barbara Kruger overcame by actually producing their contributions in the Artforum offices, barely two blocks from Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference , site of the Republican National Convention. Perhaps these last occasions best provide a sense of the project's urgency. Setting aside the matter of whether the portfolio would "preach to the choir" or exist on the peripheries of artistic or mainstream political discourses, artists felt absolutely compelled 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 ON ACID FREE PAPER OF AN IMAGE DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET WITH TWO COPIES OF THE NEW YORK POST The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 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 April: see month. 1971 James Rosenquist THE XENOPHOBIC MOVIE DIRECTOR OR OUR FOREIGN POLICY Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg 1 TO 1 (DETAIL). PHOTO: ORCUTT & VAN DER DER - Distinguished Encoding Rules PUTTEN Jeremy Deller UNTITLED |
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