2010.54.5166

Cheap Art Manifesto No. 4
1985
17.00 in HIGH x 11.00 in WIDE
(43.18 cm HIGH x 27.94 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.5166


Poster is printed with text and images in black on white paper. The top of the poster has the text: "Cheap Art Manifesto No. 4 / 10 Purposes of Cheap Art / 1 - Provoke the correct thought at the right moment / 2 - Realize Meaning where normally there is no meaning / 3 - Service a perticular instant - either ordinary or / extraordinary - in everyday life, by directing attention / either to that instant or away from it". The center of the poster has a stylized drawing in the style of a linocut. The drawing depicts a portion of a clothes pin. To the left of the drawing is the text: "4 - Provide the / appropriate / symbol for / event or chore". To the right of the drawing is the text: "5 - Provide the / inappropriate / symbol for / event or chore". The bottom of the poster has the text: "6 - Decorate General Universal / Thank - You / Existence / 7 - Hang in unlikely places i.e. / closet, bathroom, pantry, etc. / 8 - Shift concentration away from intolerable newsreport / 9 - Accelerate concentration on intolerable newsreport / 10 - Compare Apparent Mess 2 Primal Image / Bread & Puppet Press Glover Vermont 1985".
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