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Boggs: A Comedy of Values

Lawrence Weschler

4.1/5 ( ratings)

In this highly entertaining book, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps more precisely, value. Boggs draws money-paper notes in standard currencies from all over the world-and tries to spend his drawings. It is a practice that regularly lands him in trouble with treasury police around the globe and provokes fundamental questions regarding the value of art and the value of money.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: November 15, 2000

ISBN: 0226893960

ISBN 13: 9780226893969

Boggs: A Comedy of Values

Lawrence Weschler

4.1/5 ( ratings)

In this highly entertaining book, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps more precisely, value. Boggs draws money-paper notes in standard currencies from all over the world-and tries to spend his drawings. It is a practice that regularly lands him in trouble with treasury police around the globe and provokes fundamental questions regarding the value of art and the value of money.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: November 15, 2000

ISBN: 0226893960

ISBN 13: 9780226893969

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