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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana

Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana

Jacques, Michelle

Hardcover

Conceptual Art

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ISBN10: 1927958296
ISBN13: 9781927958292
Publisher: Figure 1 Pub
Published: Nov 10 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 2.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.40 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
Widely recognized and admired in countercultural communities but overlooked by the mainstream for decades, Anna Banana has been fearlessly challenging convention as Town Fool and Doktor Anna Freud, producing parodic publications, creating and exchanging artist's stamps and other original artworks and staging banana-themed events that she documents for a network of like-minded artists around the world. It is this vibrant community of creative individuals that has both fueled her work and embraced it, and it is their long history of communicating by mail--welcoming anyone interested in participating--that has laid the groundwork for today's social media networks.

Anna Banana is a compelling retrospective of the artist's work and her place in art history. Michelle Jacques traces Banana's evolution from Anne Long to conceptual artist Anna Banana and the breadth of her oeuvre. Craig Saper contemplates the paradox that an artist of her stature could remain virtually unknown while subverting mainstream art and culture so relentlessly and so humorously for so long. Anne Thurmann-Jajes relates the value of the Banana Rag and other publications in publicizing the artist's actions and maintaining contact with other artists. And Edward M. Goméz highlights the importance of Banana's fun, frank and frequently experimental art in engaging new audiences and bridging the historic anti-art practices of Dada and Fluxus and today's contemporary practices. Like the artist herself, this remarkable book will enlighten, engage and surprise.

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