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Title
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Travels with Mona
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Medium
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Postcard book
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Description
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In this performance Lacy explored the great monuments of Europe and Latin America while painting, in consecutive locales, a paint-by-number Mona Lisa. In each of 12 sites Lacy posed for hours in front of a famous tourist attraction as a studious painter completing her scripted work while studying fame. At every location a colleague—an artist or critic, including the artists Iole de Freitas and Ulrike Rosenbach—photographed her. The work represents the concerns of performance artists of the era as they attempted to formulate this new discipline, one often compared, unfavorably, with painting. It was later represented as photographs, reproduced as a travelogue foldout postcard, with text by Arlene Raven.
