{"product_id":"glamour-is-theft-a-user-s-guide-to-general-idea-1969-1978-regular","title":"Glamour Is Theft: A User’s Guide to General Idea 1969-1978","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"140\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: auto;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"max-height: none; height: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom its origins in the mail art movement through to its “destruction” of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative fiction. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlamour Is Theft \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eexamines this “pageantry of camp parody” through the logic of its mythic system. The book reconstructs this system from statements that were dispersed and disguised within General Idea’s work and writing as a whole, including the publication \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFILE Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. In General Idea’s system, there is one concept: Glamour; one operation: reversibility; one technique: cut-up; one strategy: theft; one tactic: camouflage. Following the collective’s strategies, the book in turn mimics the language of structuralist and semiological publications of the 1970s while also considering the influences of Roland Barthes, William Burroughs, Guy Debord, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Marshall McLuhan on General Idea’s work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eSelected in conjunction with The Drawing Center's exhibition \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/drawingcenter.org\/exhibitions\/general-idea\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEcce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248692920473,"sku":"9780921972662","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/9611\/5865\/files\/GlamourIs-Theft.png?v=1689359796","url":"https:\/\/shop.drawingcenter.org\/products\/glamour-is-theft-a-user-s-guide-to-general-idea-1969-1978-regular","provider":"The Drawing Center","version":"1.0","type":"link"}