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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40473761 Title: Boggs, a comedy of values Author: Lawrence Weschler Publisher: Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0226893952 9780226893952 0226893960 9780226893969 OCLC:40473761

  
  

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Boggs, a comedy of values

Author:	Lawrence Weschler
Publisher:	Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Series:	Passions and wonders series.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"New Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J.S.G. Boggs, a young artist with a certain panache, a certain flair, a certain je ne payes pas - an artist, that is, whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps, more precisely, value. What Boggs likes to do is to draw money - actual paper notes in the denominations of standard currencies from all over the world - and then to go out and try to spend those drawings. Instead of selling his money drawings outright to interested collectors, Boggs looks for merchants who will accept his drawings in lieu of cash payment for their wares or services as part of elaborately choreographed transactions, complete with receipts and even proper change - an artistic practice that regularly lands him in trouble with treasury police around the globe." "Boggs: A Comedy of Values teases out these transactions and their sometimes dramatic legal consequences, following Boggs on a larkish, though at the same time disconcertingly profound, econo-philosophic chase. For in a madcap Socratic fashion, Boggs is raising all sorts of truly fundamental questions - what is it that we value in art, or, for that matter, in money? Indeed, how do we place a value on anything at all? And in particular, why do we, why should we, how can we place such trust in anything as confoundingly insubstantial as paper money?"--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Boggs, J. S. G. -- (James Stephen George) Boggs, James S. G. Paper money. View all subjects
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