Editore: Art Metropole Toronto, Canada, 1987
Da: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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.
Editore: Art Metropole Toronto, Canada, 1989
Da: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
88 pp.; 25.5 x 18 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size 1500; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Final issue of File Megazine published in 1989 and edited by General Idea. "This last issue of FILE looks at the City, and interventions in the life of the city." Contains artists' projects by Matt Mullican and Krzysztof Wodiczko and public art projects by Dennis Adams, Alan Belcher and Dennis Oleksijczuk. Cover by General Idea. References : No. 8912 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. 202. "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. "Artists' Magazines : An Alternative Space for Art" by Gwen Allen. Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom : The MIT Press, 2011, pp. 260. Fair / Good. 5.3 cm. dog-ear with tearing to top right corner of recto with 1.8 cm. loss to corner, 1 cm. and 1.5 cm. tears to right side edge of recto, 3 mm. tear to top edge of recto and 1.3 cm. tear to top left side of recto. 6 mm. dog-ear to top left corner of verso. Light rubbing of cover edges. 1 cm. of rubbing to title page, contents otherwise clean and unmarked.