Louise Lawler Film Screening Poster, 1983 — Framed Conceptual Art Print

5 October 2017 · Paris

A framed collage print mounted on a plain white wall, combining four panels: a Looney Tunes Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon still, a black-and-white film still of a figure pressed against a rock face, a black-and-white lobby card from Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris), and a stark black announcement card reading 'A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture' by Louise Lawler — presented at James Agee Room, Bleecker Street Cinema, NYC, April 2, 1983. The yellow-taped frame holds pop culture and institutional critique in the same rectangle — one half chase-and-escape comedy, the other a canonical art-cinema kiss, bracketed by a conceptual artist's provocation about what cinema even is.