HA&L magazine issue nine.1

The Leg Book • by V. Jane Gordon • Introduction by Stephanie Vegh 1

 

Hamilton Arts & Letters



 

 

Making The Leg Book by V Jane Gordon • with an introduction by Stephanie Vegh. Drawing by V. Jane Gordon. Photo: Don Gordon.

 


When V. Jane Gordon identifies The Leg Book as a “market work” she doesn’t refer to the market that preoccupies us most today — that faceless commerce that embeds thin slivers of excess throughout the art world. Her intentions are more fruitfully planted in a microcosmic metaphor for these conditions: the open air of the farmers' market where produce is unpackaged and exchange is negotiated through the language of barter as much as money. This is a site that Gordon inhabited in her efforts as a young art student to understand whether there was, in fact, a subtle difference between selling art and selling potatoes.



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[Distillate © HA&L + Stephanie Vegh  I  V. Jane Gordon {from the Greek bios} -- the course of a life.]

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