Billboard
Art on the Road
Peggy Diggs ; Laura Steward Heon ; Harriet Sennie

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Editor(s)

Peggy Diggs, Laura Steward Heon, Harriet Sennie

Publication, year

Cambridge Mass. - ? : The MIT Press, 1999

Scope

107 Pages, illustrated, 23 x 30 cm.

ISBN

0262581779

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Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of artist's billboards of the last 30 years at Mass MoCA, North Adams Massatuchettes, May-Sept. 1999. The book contains three essays: Harriet Senie finds precursors for contemporary billboards in the European art posters (Toulouse-Lautrec), modern political posters (Rodchenko), and war billboards ("Uncle Sam Wants You"). This essay also looks at the subject matter of contemporary artists' billboards--racism, feminism, environmental issues, war and peace, consumerism, and AIDS--and at artists' strategies and site choices. Public artist Peggy Diggs discusses the process through which billboards are made and the problems encountered by billboard artists, and curator Laura Heon writes about works in the exhibition, in particular the (often conceptual) billboards that do not "sell" any political message.

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Person as subject

John Baldasari, Felix Gonzalea-Torres, Barbara Kruger, ...[et al.]

Geographical location

Canada

Location

Cabinet 27 - 6: Kunst in de openbare ruimte ; diverse landen

Remarks

Incl. survey of artist's billboards.