Artforum International - Vol. 27, No. 4 December 1988

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Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, House Monument, 1986. House Monument was a two-phase project. Initially, the artists inscribed each of the pieces of wood required to frame an average-size house with a historical or contemporary quotation on the idea of house or home, and set the lumber in an installation at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Later, Ericson and Ziegler placed an advertisement in the local newspaper, offering to sell the lumber at half price to a potential home-builder. A couple from Costa Mesa, California, responded. In the process of construction, exterior cladding and interior walls gradually covered the structural lumber, with its many citations; these “messages” remain, however, as a presence known, and perhaps felt, but no longer seen. Photo: James Franklin.

December 1988 Vol. 27, No. 4

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In this issue

Vilem Flusser on Science

Glenn O’Brien on Advertising

John Welchman on Elsewhere

J. Hoberman on American Myths

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