K Foundation Burn A Million Quid (SIGNED COPY)

[ K FOUNDATION ] Chris Brook (edits) with interviews and quotes from Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond (aka The KLF)

ISBN 10: 1899858377 / ISBN 13: 9781899858378

Published by Ellipsis, London, 1997

About this Item

1st printing. Film stills, interviews and quotes related to the actual burning, by Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, of one million pounds on Jura island in August 1994 and the subsequent touring film of the event. Quarto size (4to) in colour printed stiff card, 249pp, colour plates, etc. Inscribed and signed by Bill Drummond on the front fly-leaf no other marks or inscriptions . [CONDITION: A well preserved AS NEW copy (merest hint of tanning to leaves) ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DBBARTIST in the Keywords search box . __NOTE. Depending on destination, this item may require an extra payment for shipping insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved the extra cost . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: K Foundation Burn A Million Quid (SIGNED COPY)
• Publisher: Ellipsis, London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899858377
• ISBN 13: 9781899858378
• Binding: SOFTCOVER
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In the early hours of the 23 August 1994, in a boathouse on Jura, off the west coast of Scotland, the trustees of the K Foundation, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty burned the assets of the foundation - 1 million pounds in 50 pound notes. The money was the result of Drummond and Cauty's enormously successful ventures in pop music, first as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs), then as the Timelords, and latterly as one of the most successful bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the KLF. After disbanding the KLF in 1992 Drummond and Cauty set up the K Foundation. Their best-known foray into the art world was the presentation of 40,000 to Rachel Whiteread for the worst body of art of 1993. Whiteread had been awarded the 20,000 Turner prize a few days earlier. The burning of the 1 million was filmed and a year later Drummond and Cauty returned to Jura to show the people of the island the film and to inaugurate a series of screenings and discussions - all in an attempt to understand just what the K Foundation had done. Was it art? What was the morality of the burning? Was it a publicity stunt? ? This book is a further exploration of the act, with film stills and a selection of the statements, letters and verbal responses of those attending the screenings and associated activities.