{"product_id":"small-fires-burning-after-ed-ruscha-after-bruce-nauman-after","title":"Small Fires Burning (after Ed Ruscha after Bruce Nauman after)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis artist-designed multiple is an act of meta-appropriation, situated within the lineage of Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman. Known for his conceptual practice of quoting, altering, and riffing on works by earlier conceptual and Pop artists, Jonathan Monk often interrogates questions of authorship and artistic inheritance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this poster, Monk takes as his reference not only Ruscha’s landmark publication \u003cem\u003eVarious Small Fires and Milk\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), but also Nauman’s homage-poster \u003cem\u003eBurning Small Fires\u003c\/em\u003e (1968), which itself appropriated Ruscha’s work. Monk’s title, \u003cem\u003eSmall Fires Burning (after Ed Ruscha after Bruce Nauman after)\u003c\/em\u003e, makes this chain of references explicit, reifying the trajectory and positioning his contribution as the latest link in a decades-long snowball effect of appropriation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMonk’s multiple was exhibited in 2022 as part of the \u003cem\u003eBurning Matter\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexhibition at Studio 454 in Venice, alongside the works of Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, and other artists playing with fire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54415775039827,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/SmallFiresBurning.jpg?v=1785138645","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/small-fires-burning-after-ed-ruscha-after-bruce-nauman-after","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}