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Information and resources on "Colour Chart" at Tate Online.
29 May  –  13 September 2009

Dan Graham

Works in the exhibition

Homes for America, Arts Magazine , 1966-7
Print
74 x 93 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, London

Homes for America, 1989
Six framed colour prints, signed
Each: 50 x 56 cm, framed: 74 x 68 cm
Courtesy of the artists and Lisson Gallery, London

Homes for America started as a slide show of photographs that Graham took with a Kodak Instamatic, the cheapest camera available at the time. The layout of the work is Graham's suggested design for his article of the same title that appeared in the December 1966/January 1967 issue of Arts Magazine. Colour was a primary variable offered to consumers as a potential for individualisation of tract housing in the US. Graham was interested in the serial, geometric nature of this standardised housing.

Resources

Tate Collection
Multimedia
TATE ETC.
  • Apocalypse Now: Dan Graham on John Martin's 'The Great Day of His Wrath', TATE ETC., Issue 8, Autumn 2006