{"title":"Free Art and a Planned Giveaway","authors":"Joan Kee","doi":"10.1086/698335","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 1969 the Washington Color School painter Gene Davis, together with sculptor Ed McGowin and critic Douglas Davis, produced Giveaway, an unconventional event involving the free distribution of fifty Gene Davis paintings. This essay argues that Giveaway was a radical avant-garde gesture that questioned concepts traditionally used to indicate artistic and commercial value, including authorship and originality.","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"14 1","pages":"44 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/698335","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 1969 the Washington Color School painter Gene Davis, together with sculptor Ed McGowin and critic Douglas Davis, produced Giveaway, an unconventional event involving the free distribution of fifty Gene Davis paintings. This essay argues that Giveaway was a radical avant-garde gesture that questioned concepts traditionally used to indicate artistic and commercial value, including authorship and originality.