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Billboard : art on the road : a retrospective exhibition of artists' billboards of the last 30 years / organized by Laura Steward Heon, Peggy Diggs, and Joseph Thompson.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.

106 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 30 cm

This book accompanies the exhibition of artists' billboards that opens the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art's (MASS MoCA's) inaugural season. The exhibition comprises a twenty-work retrospective of billboards designed by artists over the past three decades as well as five newly commissioned ones. In addition to the descriptions and color images of the historic and new billboards, the book contains almost three hundred short entries, offering the first broad survey of the medium. More than half of these entries include a small color image.

Advertising in art -- Exhibitions.

Billboards -- Exhibitions.

Street art -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Heon, Laura Steward.

Diggs, Peggy.

Thompson, Joseph.

Putting the show on the road / Laura Steward Heon -- Disturbances in the field of Mammon : towards a history of artists' billboards / Harriet Senie -- Causing conversations, taking positions / Peggy Diggs -- Billboards for the Berkshires : five works commissioned for Billboard : Julie Ault and Martin Beck, Lothar Baumgarten, Sue Coe, Leon Golub, Gary Simmons / Laura Steward Heon -- Thirty years of art on the road : the billboard retrospective : Paul Badger, John Baldessari, Karl Beveridge and Carol Conde, Geneviève Cadieux, Lesley Dill, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gran Fury, Group Material, Guerrilla Girls, Keith Haring, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jenny Holzer, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Les Levine, Mary Pratt, Kay Rosen, and Erika Rothenberg / Laura Steward Heon, Peggy Diggs, and Lisa Dorin -- A survey of artists' billboards : entries for 282 billboards by 107 artists and for 14 billboard exhibitions / Laura Steward Heon and Lisa Dorin.

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