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John Baldessari
Tracey Bashkoff, John Baldessari, ...

Guggenheim Museum, 2005

The American artist John Baldessari rose to prominence in the late 1960s, combining Pop Art's use of mass media imagery with Conceptual art?s use of language to create a unique body of work that has become a hallmark of postmodern art. Early in his career, Baldessari began incorporating images and text utilized by the advertising and movie industries into his photo-based art. He appropriated pictures and movie stills, juxtaposing, editing, and ...

Yours in Food, John Baldessari: with meditations on eating by Paul Auster, David Byrne, Dave Eggers, David ...
John Baldessari

Princeton Architectural Press, 2004

In John Baldessari's new book, Yours in Food , the founding member of the conceptual art movement explores America at the table, savoring the nuances of breaking bread in carefully composed vignettes culled appropriated video and film. Reflections on food and eating specially commissioned from a smorgasbord of contemporary writers on culture and the arts, from novelist David Eggers to musician David Byrne, offer up the perfect accompaniment ...

100 Artists See God

2 reviews
Meg Cranston, Andrea Bowers, ...

Independent Curators International, New York, 2004

100 Artists See GOD, not politics
In response to the sole review for this book, having been at the exhibit I have to say that both the catalogue and the show did very well in sharing honest and intimate perspectives about personal relationships with divinity. While more political venues consistantly discuss God solely in relationship to religion, church, and state, _100 Artists See God_ serves both as a breath of fresh air and a ...

That Bodies Speak Has Been Known For A Long Time (German Edition)
Sigrid Adorf, Giorgio Agamben, ...

Walther Konig, 2004

Taking its title from Deleuze, this exhibition and catalogue consider the body linguistically. In what sense do bodies produce language, how are they themselves grasped and defined by it, and what spaces for action are opened up by this understanding? With art by John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Mary Kelly, Francesca Woodman, and others. Edited by Sabine Breitwieser, Hemma Schmutz and Tanja Widmann. Essays by Dietrich Kamer, Ursula Biemann, ...

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982
Giovanni Anselmo, Stefan Gronnert, ...

Walker Art Center, 2003

Photography has become an increasingly pervasive medium of choice in contemporary art practice and is even employed at times by artists who do not necessarily consider themselves to be photographers. How did this come to be? The Last Picture Show will address the emergence of this phenomenon of artists using photography by tracing the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 60s in the ...

Again the Metaphor Problem and Other Engaged Critical Discourses about Art: A Conversation between John ...
John Baldessari, Liam Gillick, ...

Springer, 2006

The use of metaphor has always been a central strategy of art. In The Metaphor Problem Again, American artists John Baldessari and Lawrence Weiner join British artist Liam Gillick for a discussion about the use of metaphor in their work. Their exciting and passionate conversation leads to a new perception of metaphor and its function in art and architecture. This book about the world of art and art in the world is sure to fascinate artists, ...

Undiscovered Country, The
Ann Philbin, Philip Guston, ...

Hammer Museum, 2005

For painters faced with the metaphorical death of painting, the way forward has indeed been puzzling. nevertheless, the territory continues to be explored. As Luc Tuymans put it, iPainting is a way of thinking and constitutes an enormous archetypal pattern which artists constantly fall back upon.i The Undiscovered Country addresses, through 84 stunning reproductions, the ability of painting to tackle issues of representation now that, in the ...

Made In L.A.
John Baldessari, Chris Burden

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995

Artwork by John Baldessari, Chris Burden. Contributions by Bruce Davis.

John Baldessari: Music (Art)
Christina Vegh, John Baldessari

Walther Konig, 2008

Highly influential artist and teacher John Baldessari became known in late 1960s Southern California as a conceptual painter, and since then he has worked in a variety of other media, including photography, artist books, video and printmaking. Baldessari has engaged the theme of music off and on throughout his career, but until now, those investigations haven't been seen in one cohesive volume. With more than 50 color images of paintings, ...

John Baldessari: Prima Facie: Marilyn's Dress
John Baldessari

Walther Konig, 2007

More than any other artist of his generation, the Los Angeles-based Conceptual artist John Baldessari explores the relationship between reading and seeing, between language and image. In this small, provocative artist's book, Baldessari presents 16 supposedly evocative colors along with the names that they were given by the American paint companies that produced them. Across from each solid colored left-hand page, the right page offers the ...

Richard Allen Morris: Retrospective 1958-2004 (Art Catalogue)
Siri Hustvedt, John Baldessari, ...

Kerber, 2005

After almost five decades of painting in the relative wilderness of San Diego, Richard Allen Morris has suddenly become a deserved art-world darling. Long admired by fellow West Coast artists like John Baldessari and East Coasters like David Reed, Morris has displayed a restless engagement with Abstract Expressionism over his long career, from early, large, blown-up-to-abstraction riffs on Giotto and Toulouse-Lautrec to his more recent, ...

The Prints of John Baldessari: A Catalogue Raisonne 1971-2007
Sharon Coplan Hurowitz

Hudson Hills Press LLC, 2009

First cataloge raisonne of a an artist considered a pioneer of postmodern ideas in the 1970s, he came to prominence with his early text paintings-hand painted phrases on canvas-and moved on to photographic images paired with text. He has maintained his interest in the relationship of words and imagery, often delighting in the absurd and pointing out the irony in contemporary art theory. Among his many awards is the Americans for the Arts ...

John Baldessari & Alejandro Cesarco: Retrospective
John Baldessari, Alejandro Cesarco

Walther Konig, 2008

Retrospective --a collaborative project by John Baldessari, the legendary California conceptualist, and Alejandro Cesarco, a Uruguayan, Brooklyn-based artist born in 1975--uses the act of looking back as a framing device and a narrative mode. Implicit in the work is a concern for the consequences of retelling and representing the past in the present.

John Baldessari: National City
Hugh Davies, Anne Rorimer, ...

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 1997

Artwork by John Baldessari. Contributions by Andrea Hales. Text by Hugh Davies, Anne Rorimer.

Paul Pfeiffer
Dominic Molon, Robert Fitzpatrick, ...

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2003

The basketball player dunks, and dunks, and dunks again. The boxer punches, and punches, and punches again. Using advanced technology to transform and isolate moments from movies and televised sporting events, Paul Pfeiffer's work examines contemporary notions of racial and sexual identity and how we respond to the human body when it is placed in extreme situations such as ecstasy and pain. Pfeiffer's work also explores issues of time and the ...

Do It

1 review
Harold Garfinkel, Daniel Birnbaum, ...

e-flux/Revolver, 2005

an unusual, clever, and fun angle on contemporary art
The editor/curators of this book got 50 contemporary artists to each write down instructions for a do-it-yourself art project, for the reader to try. Each is a small revelation of the artist, and a thought-provoker in itself. It's intelligent and fun -- a very clever expression and extension of contemporary art. It's just the thing for anyone who wishes they were artistic: you read an entry, ...

Pulcherrimae Strade: Contemporary Art in Historical Spaces
Andres Serrano, Marina Abramovic, ...

Charta, 2002

Friuli Venezia Giulia is a region in the north-east of Italy, bordered by Austria and Yugoslavia, and dotted with vineyards, seaside resorts, Gothic duomos, Romanesque towns, grottoes, contemporary art, and Roman ruins. Many of these elements in the landscape have been around for hundreds of years, but one has not: contemporary art. Yet throughout this region works by Marina Abramovic, John Armleder, John Baldessari, Mike Bidlo, Louise ...

Jonathan Monk: Until Then....If Not Before (French Edition)
Jonathan Monk

Domaine De Kerguehennec, 2007

Jonathan Monk, born in the UK in 1969, is a dry-humored mischief-maker who explores 1960s influences in installations, photography, film, sculpture and performance. He has met with success--in 2006 his work appeared in New Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at the Tate Triennial. Interviewed here, he tells the respected artist David Shrigley, "it is sometimes difficult to understand where it [art] all begins and ends the ...

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