In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, ed. Hapgood & Lauf, ROMA Publications, 2011

Softcover. 104 pages, 19 × 27 cm. Published by ROMA Publications / De Vleeshal, 2011.

Condition: Good vintage condition. Light handling wear, minor surface marks, softened corners, and gentle age-related wear consistent with storage and circulation.

Published in conjunction with the travelling exhibition In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, this volume gathers artists for whom the certificate, instruction, contract, receipt, signature, declaration, and administrative document become inseparable from the artwork itself.

Includes Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, George Brecht, Dan Flavin, Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Adrian Piper, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yoko Ono, Robert Barry, Seth Siegelaub, Carey Young, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Maria Eichhorn, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and others.

The book describes works that depend on documents for their status. A certificate authorizes an object, replaces an object, transfers an object, or becomes the object. Authorship and ownership appear through paper, signature, instruction, edition, and record.

Here, the publication enters a related chain. It documents certificates while becoming another document of transfer: retained, priced, described, and placed back into circulation. The catalogue does not only explain the movement of artworks through administrative forms; it now participates in that movement.

A key title on conceptual art, dematerialized practice, and the legal and poetic life of the artwork after production. Increasingly elusive in the trade.

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