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142 pp.; 25.5 x 18 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size 3000; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Next to last issue of File Megazine critiques the art market on the heals of the sale of Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece Sunflowers for a then record price of $39,921,750 on March 30, 1987 at Christie's. From the introduction editorial: "This issue of FILE we present as a commodity and it is a commodity. The artists in this issue use the language of the subject of commodification as the canvas upon which they layer their artworks." Contents include: "Dollar Bills," inside covers by Andy Warhol; "O.T.," endpapers by Rosemarie Trockel; "Misty Two," by Richard Prince; "Editorial," by General Idea; " Capital Pictures," by Marianne Staniszewski; artists' projects by Sylvia Kolbowski, Haim Steinbach, David Buchan and Barbara Kruger; "Generic Still Lifes," by Antonio Muntadas; "Personals," by Alan Belcher; "Anti-Baudrillard," by Group Material; "Ad(veritas)ments;" "Bunny Bleu" by Richard Prince and "Untitled (Cowboys) by Richard Prince on the back cover. References : No. 8708 in "General Idea : Editions 1967 - 1995" by General Idea, Barbara Fischer, AA Bronson, Fern Bayer, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Lionel Bovier, Cathy Busby, Christophe Cherix, Joshua Decter, Diedrich Diederichsen, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Philip Monk, Stephan Trescher. Toronto, Canada : Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2003, pp. 185. "In Numbers : Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955" by Andrew Roth, Philip Aarons, Victor Brand, Clive Phillpot, Neville Wakefield, Nancy Princenthal, William S. Wilson. Zurich / New York, Switzerland / NY : JRP - Ringier / PPP Editions, 2008, pp. 176. Good. Bumping to top right corner of recto with rubbing of cover and spine edges. 8 mm. of rubbing to first page; 7.8 cm. dog-ear to top left verso corner; 2.9 cm. dog-ear to top right corners of pages 1-10; 7.9 cm. dog-ear to top right corner of pages 141-150. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.…

Paperback. Condition: As New.