The John Latham piece below brings to mind two other works in which artists use the destruction or alteration of books as a means to get out from under the weight of art history.
The first is David Hammon’s brilliant piece in which he rebound the soft-cover edition of Arturo Schwarz’s 1969 book The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp as a leather-bound, gilded edge bible, complete with slip-case (here).
The second is the above work by Huang Yong Ping The History of Chinese Painting and the History of Modern Western Art Washed in the Washing Machine for Two Minutes, 1987/1993.
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