{"id":17326,"date":"2019-09-18T09:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colecaolivrodeartista.wordpress.com\/?p=17326"},"modified":"2019-09-18T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T12:16:01","slug":"variable-piece-4-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colecaolivrodeartista.eba.ufmg.br\/?p=17326","title":{"rendered":"Variable Piece 4: Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Douglas Huebler (1924\u20131997)
\nVariable Piece 4: Secrets<\/strong>
\nNew York, Printed Matter Inc, 2016
\n14 x 22 cm
\n94 p.
\nISBN: 9780990689683<\/p>\n

Variable Piece 4: Secrets<\/em> is a facsimile edition of Douglas Huebler\u2019s classic artist book, which was originally published by Printed Matter in 1978. Simple and salacious, the publication collects over 1,800 secrets written anonymously by visitors to the 1970 Software<\/em> exhibition at the Jewish Museum. In doing so, the book provides a fleeting glimpse into the cultural, political, and social preoccupations of the era while showcasing Huebler\u2019s open-ended and variable approach to art making\u2014an approach that sought to undermine the dominance of object-oriented practices in favor of a text-driven conceptualism that relied on variables outside of the artist\u2019s control.<\/p>\n

Pioneers of the artists\u2019 books medium, of which Huebler was one, predicted that one day artists\u2019 books would be sold next to detective and romance novels in drugstores and supermarkets throughout America. While this dream was never realized, Variable Piece 4: Secrets<\/em> could easily find its place amongst these popular genres; a true page-turner that delivers the whodunit in succinct statements, ripped from real life, without the hassle of narrative arcs, prefaces, or chapters.<\/p>\n\n

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