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dek: "Marian Goodman Gallery and MoMA are reviving interest in multiples -- art produced in affordable editions for the '60s middle-class. Now, some artists are taking up the cause."
Referring to contemporary artist Danh Võ, Blake Gopnik writes: "Mr. Vo sees the letter’s almost trivial price tag as adding conceptual heft to the piece."
~ The social significance attached by some artists to the extremely low prices of their multiples has, I think, a close analogue in the infinite reproducibility of digital art, which some (most?) digital artists consider to be both good and intrinsic to their work.
1790: GW's 1st SoTU, including this passage:
"Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential.
To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways -- by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people, and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority; between burthens [i.e., burdens] proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society; to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness -- cherishing the first, avoiding the last -- and uniting a speedy but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws." -- from
1918: Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech to Congress
1964: LBJ's 1st SoTU announces the war on poverty.
Giotto, 1337 (age 70?), in Florence (Firenze)
Galileo, 1642 (age 77), in Florence (Firenze)
John Baskerville, 1775 (age 68), in Birmingham, England
Emperor Norton, 1880 (age 61), in San Francisco
Paul Verlaine, 1896 (age 51), in Paris
Joseph Schumpeter, 1950 (age 66), in Salisbury, Connecticut, US
Harriet Bedell, 1969 (age 94), in Davenport, Florida, US (feast day)
Terry-Thomas, 1990 (age 78), in Godalming, Surrey, UK