false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174921221m/454807.jpg 454807 2 James Stephen George Boggs is not a con artist, he's a talented artist who deftly renders his own currency and "spends" it. Struck by the value of money, and what paper notes represent, he draws U.S. dollar bills, English pound notes, Swiss francs, and other forms of paper money; then he barters his illustrious artwork in lieu of cash to willing merchants who agree to honor his currency for services and products. In <I>Boggs: A Comedy of Values</I>, Lawrence Weschler, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning book <I>Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder</I>, documents Boggs's whimsical antics, offering a quirky and lively meditation on the value of currency and workmanship and a richly informative (albeit brief) social history of money.<p> Boggs does not sell his "money" directly, as Weschler learns, nor does he attempt to pass his drawings off as actual bills. For Boggs, the elaborate transaction of negotiation is a crucial element in his work, and the tangible proof of his success--receipts and proper change--is included in the final product. Of course, treasury departments from around the world are anything but pleased; the second half of the book deals extensively with the artist's court battle with the Bank of England. As Weschler notes, Boggs is not the first to question the value of money through art (Larry Rivers, Pablo Picasso, Timm Ulrichs, Adolf Wölfi, and Jurgen Harten are just some artists who have put currency to the test), but the author finds in Boggs's work an ideal subject for opening a probing inquiry into the economy of money, especially timely at the end of the 20th century as paper currency--which once directly represented precious-metal coins--evolves into "binary sequences of pulses racing between computers." <I>--Kera Bolonik</I> 875983 1999 Boggs: A Comedy of Values total:58|5:21|4:29|3:5|2:3|1:0| 58 242 87 8 454807 0226893960 9780226893969 51 6 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174921221m/454807.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/454807.Boggs_A_Comedy_of_Values 5 0 false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 18:38:30 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 07:15:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 890742 0226893952 9780226893952 7 2 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179213886m/890742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/890742.Boggs_A_Comedy_of_Values 5 0 false Tue Jul 17 11:37:40 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 15:24:16 -0700 2007
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