Items Under $5, Edit DeAk, Lapislazuliblue Soda, 3 Mercer St. Store, Nehi bottled soda, 1976

It is not clearwhether DeAk’s appropriation (and renaming) of Nehi Blue Cream Soda was meant as art or as refreshment for gallery goers.  Perhaps we should see it now as an early example of the recent trend of edible/consumable art.  Art writer DeAk was a founder of Art-Rite magazine and a critic at Artforum.

Size: 2.25 (diameter) x 8.25 (height) inches.

Close up of bottle cap