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the point of (re)production. That is, with the evacuation of “artistic” traces, the
artist’s authorship as producer of objects is reconfigured as his/her authority to au-
thorize in the capacity of director or supervisor of (re)production. The guarantee of
authenticity is finally the artist’s sanction, which may be articulated by his/her ac-
tual presence at the moment of production-installation or via a certificate of verifi-
cation. 8
While Andre and Judd once problematized authorship through the recruitment
of serialized industrial production, only to cry foul years later when their
proposition was taken to one of its logical conclusions, 9 artists whose practices are
based in modes of “traditional” manual labor have registered a more complex un-
Sol LeWitt, certificate for Wall Drawing no. 150, October 1972. (Courtesy The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation,
New York, Panza Collection.)