AIDS Ring
Catalogue
- Year
- 1993
- Dimensions
- component (ring): 1 1/4 x 13/16 x 13/16" (3.1 x 2 x 2 cm); component (velvet box): 1 3/16 x 2 1/4 x 1 15/16" (3 x 5.7 x 5 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- General Idea
Artist
Photography
General Idea was a Canadian artist collective active from 1969 to 1994, known for provocative interventions in photography, video, and installation that engaged with mass media, consumer culture, and the AIDS crisis. Working across appropriation, performance, and institutional critique, the group produced iconic works including their reinvention of the Miss General Idea Pageant and large-scale photographic series that subverted advertising and fashion imagery. Their practice anticipated conceptual strategies that became central to contemporary art in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- General Idea
- Year
- 1993
- Dimensions
- component (ring): 1 1/4 x 13/16 x 13/16" (3.1 x 2 x 2 cm); component (velvet box): 1 3/16 x 2 1/4 x 1 15/16" (3 x 5.7 x 5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1993-M088917
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
- verified