Vintage Kit Schwartz Female Chicago Artist Interview Card 1977-78 Gallery Prop
For your consideration is this original Kit Schwartz sign seeking volunteers for her art piece A New Portrait: A Semiographic Representation of Art During the Seventies. A compendium of interviews for a project created by Kit Schwartz consisting of responses by 45 artists to the statement People who live in glass houses should not throw stones and responses from 90 artists to the question Describe yourself as a person. Materials include sound recordings and corresponding transcripts of each response in two scrapbooks. Participants include Carl Andre, Arman, Robert Arneson, Sarah Charlesworth, Dan Graham, Ray Johnson, Ivan Karp, Joseph Kosuth, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, and others. Also included is a folder of background information on the project. The project was exhibited under the name A New Portrait: A Semiographic Representation of Art During the Seventies at the O.K. Harris Gallery, New York City.