General Idea

 
Founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal—both dead in 1994—and AA Bronson, the collective General Idea adopted a generic identity that "freed it from the tyranny of individual genius." Their complex intermingling of reality and fiction took the form of a transgressive and often parodic take on art and society. Treating the image as a virus infiltrating every aspect of the real world, General Idea set out to colonize it, modify its content and so come up with an alternative version of reality.
Paintings, installations, sculptures, photographs, videos, magazines, and TV programs: General Idea's is an authentically multimedia oeuvre, that has lost nothing of its freshness and can now be seen as anticipating certain aspects of a current art scene undergoing radical transformation.

See also AA Bronson.

(external link : www.aabronson.com)
 
 General Idea - A Rare Gift of the Tropics
2023
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Nieves
A series of viral drawings by Jorge Zontal, signed General Idea, printed in 5 color offset.
 General Idea - Ecce Homo
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The General Idea drawings.
 General Idea -
2022
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A colossal compendious overview of the revered and subversive queer Canadian collective, designed in collaboration with AA Bronson: the most comprehensive source on General Idea.
 General Idea -
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A colossal compendious overview of the revered and subversive queer Canadian collective, designed in collaboration with AA Bronson: the most comprehensive source on General Idea.
 General Idea - A Retrospective (1969-1994)
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Retrospective catalogue (new edition).
 General Idea - FILE Megazine (boxset)
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
Six-volume reprint of the "FILE Megazine" issues.


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