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The General Knowledge of Idiots

Artist
Mark Sutherland
Date
1989
Publisher
The Portable Gallery
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Paper
Size
22.5 × 28 × 1 cm
Length
112 
Description

This could be described as a Pataphysical bookwork and Wittgenstein’s legacy; once again Sutherland attacks the physical conventions of a standard book. A dictionary (here the ‘found object’) was sliced up and its contents relabeled. At first, completely incomprehensible, and then, quite clever.

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