{"product_id":"glamour-is-theft-a-users-guide-to-general-idea-1969-1978-hardcover","title":"Glamour Is Theft: A User's Guide to General Idea: 1969-1978 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeneral Idea\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003ePhilip Monk\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom its origins in the mail art movement through to its \"destruction\" of \u003ci\u003eThe 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion \u003c\/i\u003ein 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative fiction. \u003ci\u003eGlamour Is Theft \u003c\/i\u003eexamines this \"pageantry of camp parody\" through the logic of its mythic system. The book reconstructs this system from statements that were dispersed and disguised within General Idea's work and writing as a whole, including the publication \u003ci\u003eFILE Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. In General Idea's system, there is one concept: Glamour; one operation: reversibility; one technique: cut-up; one strategy: theft; one tactic: camouflage. Following the collective's strategies, the book in turn mimics the language of structuralist and semiological publications of the 1970s while also considering the influences of Roland Barthes, William Burroughs, Guy Debord, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Marshall McLuhan on General Idea's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 10.3 x 8.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48288554909945,"sku":"9780921972662","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UN2nY4MD2q9780921972662.webp?v=1776247177","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/glamour-is-theft-a-users-guide-to-general-idea-1969-1978-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}