Applying strategies of mass production to handmade objects, McCollum’s labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum’s installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged, are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. With a text by Andrea Fraser.

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*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of Allan McCollum’s exhibition at Lisson Gallery, London, 3 October-2 November, 1985. With a text by Craig Owens.