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In 1982, Jeff Gordon and Ron Feldman brought 24 artists together for an art exhibit.  The end result, however, was not a conventional  art gallery exhibit but 21 audio tracks which vary greatly in subject matter and recording style.  Though each artist created a lithograph as an album cover for their individual tracks (as seen on the wall of the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery), the emphasis of the exhibit was on the auditory, rather than the visual, components.  Visitors to the Ron Feldman Fine Arts gallery went around the room listening to each track, but the exhibit is not confined to the physical space of a gallery; it can be experienced by anyone with access to a record player, no matter their location.  This also allows for the exhibit to exist beyond the time it spent in the Feldman Fine Arts Gallery in New York.  The audio tracks cover subjects ranging from nuclear war to phonetics, and are deeply influenced by the historical context of the 1980s.

Revolutions Per Minute: The Art Record was unique in its ability to transcend the physical confines of the art gallery, but in the age of internet, this is now taken for granted.  Anyone can conduct a search on the internet and find images of almost any piece of artwork, no matter its physical location.  Though this may lessen the poignancy of the Feldman exhibit's mobility, the piece remains relevant in many other ways, such as the themes it explores and the historical context it provides.

This particular copy of "Revolutions Per Minute: The Art Record" was purchased by Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery in 1982, just five days after the exhibit opened in New York.  It is number 107 of 500 copies from the Deluxe Edition of the record released by the gallery, and includes the 21 audio tracks on two vinyl discs and the 21 lithographs, each signed by the artist which created it.  

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  1. Revolutions Per Minute: The Art Record Rebekah Smith

Contents of this tag:

  1. Gallery of Lithographs
  2. Themes
  3. Further Reading
  4. 1982: Historical Context of "Revolutions Per Minute"
  5. Types of Audio Format
  6. Would Not Say No to Some Help; Les Levine
  7. First Lines; Margaret Harrison
  8. How to Make Love a Sound; Douglas Davis
  9. Pieces of Sound; Vincenzo Agnetti
  10. Polynesian/Polyhedron; Jud Fine
  11. Antinova Remembers; Eleanor Antin
  12. Really, Is that a Fact?; Ida Applebroog
  13. The Louis XIV Deterrent; Conrad Atkinson
  14. Vibrations/Metaphors; Edwin Schlossberg
  15. Excerpt from the Second Lagoon: A Memoriam to John Isaacs; Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison
  16. Stand Up; Hannah Wilke
  17. Atomic Alphabet; Chris Burden
  18. Internal Sound; Terry Fox
  19. Comments on SITE; SITE
  20. Russian Language Lesson; Komar and Melamid
  21. Critical Path; R. Buckminster Fuller
  22. Smashing Beauty; Thomas Shannon
  23. Typewriter in D; David Smyth
  24. Think Twice; Todd Siler
  25. You Only Call the Old Doctor Once; Piotr Kowalski & William Burroughs
  26. Excerpt from Cooper Union Dialogue; Joseph Beuys