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Fred Forest's Utopia : Media Art and Activism /

The innovative French media artist and prankster-provocateur Fred Forest first gained notoriety in 1972 when he inserted a small blank space in Le Monde, called it 150 cm 2 of Newspaper (150 cm 2 de papier journal), and invited readers to fill in the space with their own work and mail their efforts...

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Autor principal: Leruth, Michael F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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