Title
The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist (Mit Press),Used
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An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art projectadvertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallerythat hoodwinked the New York art world.From the summer of 1970 to March 1971, advertisements appeared in four leading art magazinesArtforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, and ARTnewsfor a group show and six solo exhibitions at the Jean Freeman Gallery at 26 West FiftySeventh Street, in the heart of Manhattan's gallery district. As gallery goers soon discovered, this address did not existthe street numbers went from 16 to 20 to 24 to 28and neither did the art supposedly exhibited there. The ads were promoting fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery. The scheme, eventually exposed by a New York Times reporter, was concocted by the artist Terry FugateWilcox as both work of art and critique of the art world. In this book, Christopher Howard brings this forgotten Conceptual art project back into view. Howard demonstrates that FugateWilcox's project was an exceptionally clever embodiment of many important aspects of Conceptualism, incisively synthesizing the major aesthetic issues of its timedocumentation and dematerialization, serialism and process, text and image, publishing and publicity. He puts the Jean Freeman Gallery in the context of other magazinebased work by Mel Bochner, Judy Chicago, Yoko Ono, and Ed Ruscha, and compares the fictional artists' projects with actual Earthworks by Walter De Maria, Peter Hutchinson, Dennis Oppenheim, and more. Despite the deadpan perfection of the Jean Freeman Gallery project, the art establishment marginalized its creator, and the project itself was virtually erased from art history. Howard corrects these omissions, drawing on deep archival research, personal interviews, and investigation of fineprinted clues to shed new light on a New York art world mystery.
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