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Essays

The essays excerpted here appeared in the exhibition catalogue for Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology. The catalogue is available online at the Hammer Store.

Perpetual Photo, by Allan McCollum, 1982

Introduction: Take It or Leave It

Johanna Burton and Anne Ellegood
"Some Aspects of a Shared Lifestyle," by Gregg Bordowitz, 1986

Cultural Interference

The Reunion of Appropriation and Institutional Critique
Johanna Burton
Stephen Prina, "The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You: Mourning Sex," 2005–7. Installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Mourning in America

Anne Ellegood
Glenn O'Brien performing on the public-access cable television program "TV Party," 1981

Welcome to the TV Party

Gavin Butt
September 12, by Robert Gober, 2005–9

Figure It Out

On the Possibilities of Political Figuration
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Deep Purple, by Tom Burr, installation view at FRAC Champagne Ardenne, 2000

Notes on Painting in Disguise

George Baker
Slit, by Fred Wilson, 1995

Good Fences

Darby English
Campaign Button, by John Waters, 2004. Installation view, Election, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, 2004.

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