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[the artist as artwork:]
signatures and other verbal self-promotion


 


Francis Picabia: "Francis Picabia", 1920


Maurice Lemaître:
Portrait of a name, 1950

 


Ben Vautier: "Ben", 1958

 


Ed Paschke: Cadmium Signature, 1979


Matthieu Laurette:
"Je suis un artiste", 1998

 


Gavin Turk: Knob, 1997

  
     


 



Ben Vautier, 1959


Robert Morris: I-Box, 1962



Keith Arnatt, 1972



Wang Du, 2004

     

 

 

 

Ben Vautier


Gavin Turk, 1991


     


 

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