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Jeff Wall
Canadian, born 1946
Ian Wallace
Canadian, born 1943
Rodney Graham
Canadian, 1949–2022
1980
A 12-inch vinyl record cover photograph by Rodney Graham that stages a mock rock band in a rehearsal room to use the language of pop records to probe performance, authorship, and identity.
You notice first the cool, clinical light and the careful awkwardness of the tableau—musicians frozen around a small table piled with guitars and sheet music, while a singer at a microphone holds a pink folder as if mid-instruction.
By treating a commercial LP format as a conceptual artwork, Graham blurred fine art and popular culture, opening up strategies of appropriation and staged authenticity that influenced later cross-disciplinary practices.
Medium
12-inch vinyl record
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of David Platzker and Susan Inglett
Accession
772.2013
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