{"id":524,"date":"2008-03-09T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T22:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contemporaryartetc.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2008-03-09T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T22:03:37","slug":"fact-of-the-day-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/fact-of-the-day-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Art e-Facts 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"www.artnet.com\/\u2026\/walker\/walker2-22-06.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/contemporaryartetc.com\/files\/2008\/03\/walker2-22-06-2s.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1966, <strong>John Latham<\/strong> borrowed a copy of Clement Greenberg&#8217;s Art and Culture \u2014 a work held in the highest regard at the time \u2014 from the library of Saint Martin&#8217;s School of Art, where Latham was employed as a part-time lecturer. At a party Latham invited students to chew pages from the book, and then distilled the resulting pulp into a clear liquid. This process took several months, and Latham began to receive letters from the library demanding its return. Latham presented a vial of the fermented book-pulp to the library, but this was rejected and his teaching contract was not renewed. The vial and correspondence became an artwork of its own, displayed in a leather case; the piece is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In 1966, John Latham borrowed a copy of Clement Greenberg&#8217;s Art and Culture \u2014 a work held in the highest regard at the time \u2014 from the library of Saint Martin&#8217;s School of Art, where Latham was employed as a part-time lecturer. At a party Latham invited students to chew pages from the book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[114,290],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-e-facts","tag-conceptual-art","tag-john-latham"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}