Sentences with phrase «general idea pageants»

General Idea, the Toronto - based art collective, did something similar with its Miss General Idea pageant, though only one of the four winners of the annual event, held in Toronto from 1968 to 1971, was a man; the competition wasn't about gender so much as it was about art as a system for producing value and fame.

Aiding their semi-fictional «1984 Miss General Idea Pageant,» the ziggurat was a representation of progress, power, and success, repeated, coupled, and combined to express control through a basic form.

The culmination of General Idea's architectural pursuits would be The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, a fictional structure which purportedly housed The 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant.

Aiding their semi-fictional «1984 Miss General Idea Pageant,» the ziggurat was a representation of progress, power, and success and repeated, coupled, and combined to express control through a basic form.

Not exact matches

By appropriating the form of pageants and publications as well as, in other cases, documentaries and advertising, General Idea was able to move art outside the gallery space, often in political ways.

Playing on a monitor at the entrance to the retrospective exhibition «General Idea: Broken Time» at the Museo Jumex, Pilot (1977), which the group made for Ontario public television, is a thirty - minute deadpan documentary on the pageant that provides an introduction to the collective's interests and sensibilities.