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557,087 / 955,000
An Exhibition Organized by Lucy Lippard

Item date(s): 1970

Lucy R. Lippard  - (title)
Morrie J. Alhadeff  - (foreword by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 4 x 6" cards

Sub-type: Exhibition catalogue

Place publication: Vancouver
Publisher: The Vancouver Art Gallery

Additional notes:
13/1/70-8/2/70.

4 x 6" cards housed in a mylar wrap-around.

There are many duplicates and there seems to be no logical sequence as the cards are not numbered.

Some have illustrations, some text only.

Includes a Selected General Bibliography with addendum.

One card lists ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION: VANCOUVER.

'the catalog consists of 95 4" x 6" index cards in random order including 64 cards compiled by the artists themselves, 20 text cards by l.r.l. [Lucy Lippard], 2 title pages (955,000 and 557,087), 1 acknowledgements, 2 lists of the council members and officers, 1 forward by the council president, 1 list of artists, 3 selective bibliograhy, 1 list of films shown, 1 addenda to artists' cards."

Housed in a wooden gray box 196 x 176 x 120mm together with Franklin Furnace Archive rtists Book Bibliography Volumes I - III.

See: "From Conceptualism to Feminism - Lucy Lippard's Numbers Shows 1969-74" by Cornelia Butler and other authors; particularly p158+ where a number of the cards are illustrated.

Illustrated on page 31 of rtist Books Multiples Prints. Sims Reed Ltd (2014?) Item 109. Priced at £400.

Ref: 2360







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