Artforum
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 27 x 26.5 cm.
  • 94 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Artforum

[LYNDA BENGLIS DILDO ISSUE] / Vol. 13, No. 3 (November 1974)

John Coplans, Lynda Benglis, Cervin Robinson, Rosemarie Bletter, Abraham A. Davidson, Williams Rubin, Lawrence Alloway, Robert Pincus-Witten, Lucy Lippard, Max Kozloff, Edward F. Fry, Peter Plagens, Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Artforum

description

November 1974 issue of Artforum, edited by John Coplans. This is the issue of Artforum that includes the (in)famous Lynda Benglis "dildo photograph" advertisement. Contents include: "Skyscraper Style: Art Deco New York," by Cervin Robinson and Rosemarie Bletter; "John Storrs, Early Sculptor of the Machine Age," by Abraham A. Davidson; "Talking with Williams Rubin: 'Like Folding Out of a Hand of Cards'," by Lawrence Alloway and John Coplans; "Lynda Benglis: the Frozen Gesture," by Robert Pincus-Witten; "On Bruce Boice," by Robert Pincus-Witten; "Jonathan Borofsky at 2,096,974," by Lucy Lippard; "Two Articles on Photography: The Territory of Photographs and Meatyard," by Max Kozloff; and "1913, Book Review," by Edward F. Fry. Reviews by Peter Plagens. Cover: Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Also includes a letter protesting the arrest of Jean Toche signed by Joyce Kozloff, Alice Neel, Yvonne Rainer, Corinne Robins, Salvatore Romano, Larry Rosing, Rudolf Baranik, Arnold Belkin, Louise Bourgeois, Allan D'Arcangelo, Hans Haacke, Phoebe Helman, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Wiegand, Joan Semmel, Jack Sonenberg, and May Stevens.

references

No. 62 in "Artists' Magazines : An Alternative Space for Art" by Gwen Allen. Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom : The MIT Press, 2011, pp. 32, 66.

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$950.00
Condition:  Good. 6.3 cm., 3.2 cm., and 2.5 cm. nesting dog-ears to bottom right corner of recto. Moderate edge-wear with bumping of top edge of cover and pages and bumping of top right corner of covers. Rubbing of spine. 2.3 cm. loss to top left corner of verso with a 1.2 cm. tear to top edge. Bumping and bending to top and bottom right of pages with light yellowing. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Benglis double-page spread is in Very Good condition with very light wear.
[Object # 39417]

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$750.00
Condition:  Good. Dinging and creasing of covers with rubbing of cover edges and rusting of staples. Foxing to right side edge of Benglis advertisement. Additional light handling wear. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 39211]

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$700.00
Condition:  Good. 2.5 cm. of writing in red ink on first page and directly on dildo in Lynda Benglis advertisement (reads [MRK)]). Rubbing to covers with bumping of edges and 5 cm. dog-ear to top right corner of publication. 27.5 cm. crease across verso. Rubbing and bumping of spine at corners. Additional light handling wear and edgewear. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 39418]

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