The Perfect Smile - original black-and-white photograph.
by James Lee BYARS
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About This Item
n.p., c.1974.. (25 x 20.5 cm).. Unpublished close-up portrait, showing an early enigmatic appearance of ‘The Perfect Smile’ of James Lee Byars. In the photograph Byars is dressed in a white shirt with a black silk scarf wrapped around his head, which obscures his eyes and most of his face, except for parts of his mouth and nose. The performance consists of a very subtle movement of the mouth to indicate the briefest smile possible. The work was eventually ‘bequeathed’ by Byars to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in 1994, with the request that it be exhibited like any other work in its collection. It stands as the first such conceptual museum acquisition. This photograph seems to relate in date with the Byars performance “The Perfect Love Letter”, which took place at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels in 1974.
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- Bookseller
- Tim Byers Art Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 965
- Title
- The Perfect Smile - original black-and-white photograph.
- Author
- James Lee BYARS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- n.p.
- Date Published
- c.1974.
- Size
- (25 x 20.5 cm).
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Tim Byers Art Books
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Richmond, Surrey
About Tim Byers Art Books
Dealer in modern artist's books, exhibition catalogues, invitations, announcements, posters, and related printed ephemera. Stock includes material concerning all major aspects of late 20th century art: COBRA, Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Performance Art, Land Art, Fluxus, Neo-Expressionism, Post-Modernism, & YBA.
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