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020 $a0226893952 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm40473761
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050 00 $aHG353$b.W47 1999
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100 1 $aWeschler, Lawrence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81118800
245 10 $aBoggs :$ba comedy of values /$cLawrence Weschler.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1999.
300 $axiv, 160 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe passions and wonders series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [149]-153) and index.
520 $aNew Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, a young artist with a certain panache, a certain flair, a certain je ne payes pas - an artist, that is, whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps, more precisely, value. What Boggs likes to do is to draw money - actual paper notes in the denominations of standard currencies from all over the world - and then to go out and try to spend those drawings.
520 8 $aInstead of selling his money drawings outright to interested collectors, Boggs looks for merchants who will accept his drawings in lieu of cash payment for their wares or services as part of elaborately choreographed transactions, complete with receipts and even proper change - an artistic practice that regularly lands him in trouble with treasury police around the globe.
520 8 $aBoggs: A Comedy of Values teases out these transactions and their sometimes dramatic legal consequences, following Boggs on a larkish, though at the same time disconcertingly profound, econo-philosophic chase. For in a madcap Socratic fashion, Boggs is raising all sorts of truly fundamental questions - what is it that we value in art, or, for that matter, in money? Indeed, how do we place a value on anything at all?
520 8 $aAnd in particular, why do we, why should we, how can we place such trust in anything as confoundingly insubstantial as paper money?
600 10 $aBoggs, J. S. G.$q(James Stephen George)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98107472
650 0 $aPaper money.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097630
650 0 $aMoney in art.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086800
650 0 $aValue.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141930
830 0 $aPassions and wonders series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99034849
852 00 $bglx$hHG353$i.W47 1999