offset-printed · 142 pp. · 25.5 x 18 cm · glue bound · black-and-white & color images · edition size 3000 · unsigned and unnumbered
Next to last issue of File Megazine critiques the art market on the heals of the sale of Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece Sunflowers for a then record price of $39,921,750 on March 30, 1987 at Christie's.
From the introduction editorial: This issue of FILE we present as a commodity and it is a commodity. The artists in this issue use the language of the subject of commodification as the canvas upon which they layer their artworks.
Contents include: Dollar Bills inside covers by Andy Warhol; O.T. endpapers by Rosemarie Trockel; Misty Two by Richard Prince; Editorial by General Idea; Capital Pictures by Marianne Staniszewski; artists' projects by Sylvia Kolbowski, Haim Steinbach, David Buchan and Barbara Kruger; Generic Still Lifes by Antonio Muntadas; Personals by Alan Belcher; Anti-Baudrillard by Group Material; Ad(veritas)ments and Bunny Bleu by Richard Prince and Untitled (Cowboys) by Richard Prince on the back cover.
Good Vintage Condition