Boggs
Book description
In this text, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J.S.G. Boggs, a young artist with a certain panache, a certain flair, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps, more precisely, value. What Boggs likes to do is to draw money - actual paper notes in the denominations of…
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I grabbed this book off a bargain shelf, unsure whether it was fiction. That was a perfect misconception. I encourage you to buy the book without finding out.
Read this description and nothing else: Boggs is an artist. His work: exquisite duplicates of currency notes. Not counterfeits! Boggs always emphasizes that his bills are art, not currency. Nevertheless, he attempts to “spend” them. After running up a restaurant tab for $87, he offers to “pay” his server a drawing of a $100 bill—which, of course, is hard to price, being art, but he’s willing to value it at, let’s say…how…
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