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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

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 Artist Books Multiples Prints. Sims Reed Ltd (2014?) Item 109. Priced at £400.

Reference note:
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a show held January 13 - February 8, 1970. This is an expanded, somewhat different version of the Seattle exhibition and catalogue "557,087" which had been organised by Lucy R. Lippard the previous year at the Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle, WA, September 5 - October 5, 1969. As several works that had been installed in Seattle were site-specific they had to be recreated in Vancouver. 29 projects were altered or newly added to the show in Vancouver. The two shows in North America were followed by an exhibition at the Centro de Arte y Communicacin in Buenos Aires in December 1970 entitled 2,972,453. The exhibition titles refer to the number of inhabitants of each of the three cities - in the case of Vancouver 955,000 was the population of the Greater Vancouver area. The catalogue consists of 137 printed 4 x 6 inch index cards containing artists' proposals and conceptual works plus one additional unprinted, blank.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Keith Arnatt, Richard Artschwager, Terry Atkinson, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Rick Barthelme, Gene Beery, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, Jon Borofsky, Daniel Buren, Donald Burgy, Rosemarie Castoro, Greg Curnoe, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Rafael Ferrer, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Alex Hay, Michael Heizer, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Edward Kienholz, Robert Kinmont, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Roelof Louw, Duane Lundon, Bruce McLean, Robert Morris, N. Y. Graphic Workshop, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, George Nikoliadis, Dennis Oppenheim, John Perreault, Adrian Piper, Robert Rohm, Alan Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, George Sawchuk, Richard Serra, Randy Sims, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, and Ian Wilson.

Most index cards, sent in by the artists for the exhibition catalogue, give instructions for the construction and installation of the works as there was no budget to either fly the artists in or to ship all artworks to Vancouver. The objects and installations were executed by Lucy Lippard herself, by Vancouver artists and other volunteers. The catalogue pages also served as labels accompanying the artworks in the exhibition. Complete set of 138 printed cards, lacks original manila envelope.

Ref: 2360