November 12, 2010

75 Reasons to Live: John Zarobell on Bruce Conner

by John Zarobell

SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Collections, Exhibitions, and Commissions John Zarobell gives a talk about Bruce Conner’s assemblage LOOKING GLASS from 1964. “Bruce Conner was against things,” he says, considering how this “tawdry, shabby, and kind of grotesque” work might hold up a mirror to the culture.

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