{"product_id":"peter-halley-a-tour-of-the-monuments-of-passaic-new-jersey","title":"Peter Halley – A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePeter Halley's \u003cem\u003eA Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey\u003c\/em\u003e (1989) is a hand-signed and numbered set of five relief etchings on japan paper, from an edition of 50 + XII artist's proofs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/limited-edition-prints\" title=\"Limited edition prints\"\u003eprint portfolio\u003c\/a\u003e's title borrows directly from Robert Smithson's 1967 Artforum essay of the same name, in which Smithson toured Passaic's industrial edges and reframed its water towers and pipes as accidental monuments. Halley extends that inquiry into how systems shape the built environment, translating it into the flat, diagrammatic cells and conduits of his own paintings, rendering Smithson's entropic New Jersey as hard-edged, brightly colored structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMade two decades after Smithson's tour, the set reflects \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/collections\/peter-halley\" title=\"Peter Halley artworks\"\u003eHalley's\u003c\/a\u003e ongoing dialogue with Land Art and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/conceptual-art\" title=\"Conceptual art\"\u003econceptualism\u003c\/a\u003e, part of the body of work that established him as a leading Neo-Geo figure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Halley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55382259040598,"sku":null,"price":3800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0902\/3035\/8358\/files\/Halley-Peter_A-Tour-of-the-Monuments-of-Passaic_7.jpg?v=1789477464","url":"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/products\/peter-halley-a-tour-of-the-monuments-of-passaic-new-jersey","provider":"MLTPL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}