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Book cover for White Flag

White Flag

AUTHOR / EDITOR / CONTRIBUTOR:
LG Williams

Description

2009 Exhibition Catalogue at FUCKTHATGALLERY

White Flag is a fraught ambiguous thing, at once object and history, public icon, toss away and secret diary, in LG Williams' revelatory masterpiece taped up - or is the right word "made"? - in 2009. It is an artwork that is also a sculpture. At first, what you see is simple: a Hefty® Tall Kitchen Garbage Bag. Look closer - and this is, profoundly, a work of art to experience in itself. In the original - owned by FUCKTHATGALLERY™ since the fucking 2009 - you start to see the nuances of plastic. Williams made White Flag using a method, an ancient tape art method from Prehistoric Cave Art.

PUBLISHER:
PCP Press
DATE:
2010-01-01
PAGE COUNT / PAGES:
40.0
DIMENSIONS:
8.5 x 11 inches
FORMAT:
Paperback
LANGUAGE:
English
ISBN-13:
9781546352075.0

Full Summary

White Flag is a PCP Press artist book and exhibition-catalogue-style publication documenting LG Williams’s 2009 work of the same name. The interior presents a minimal sequence of title pages, publication branding, and repeated photographic views of the artwork: a pale Hefty tall kitchen garbage bag mounted on a wall, with a blue drawstring edge visible in several close views. A caption page identifies the work as LG Williams, White Flag, 2009, Hefty Tall Kitchen Garbage Bag on the Wall, 24 x 27 inches, edition of 100, in the collection of FUCKTHATGALLERY, Honolulu, HI. The book’s structure emphasizes the object’s material surface, its readymade status, and the tension between a white flag as sign, sculpture, disposable object, and exhibition document.

Contents

  1. Cover / Blank Surface Image
  2. White Flag Title Page
  3. LG Williams / FUCKTHATGALLERY Title Page
  4. White Flag Object Views
  5. Caption Page: Hefty Tall Kitchen Garbage Bag on the Wall
  6. Detail Views
  7. Closing Image Sequence

Essay Summaries / Chapter Summaries

NAMED ARTISTS / FIGURES:
LG Williams
INSTITUTIONS / VENUES:
PCP Press; FUCKTHATGALLERY; FUCKTHATGALLERY Honolulu; The Estate of LG Williams; Hefty
KEYWORDS:
PCP Press; White Flag; LG Williams; FUCKTHATGALLERY; Honolulu; Hefty Tall Kitchen Garbage Bag; garbage bag; wall work; readymade; conceptual art; edition of 100; 2009 artwork; exhibition catalogue; artist book; white flag; surrender; plastic surface; sculpture; installation documentation