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John Baldessari

"Well, the only thing I'm kind of sure about is that when two things are brought into some sort of magnetic proximity, that meaning occurs. Two words, two images, two objects, whatever it is. Whether there's universality, or agreement on the meaning, I rather doubt it. That's probably pretty cultural. But it fascinates me that people want things to mean."

John Baldessari, excerpted from John Baldessari: Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (With Orange), Guggenheim Museum.

John Baldessari was born in National City, California in 1931, and lives and works in Santa Monica, California. His work has been exhibited in museums such as The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, and in art galleries worldwide. He has also recently curated exhibitions at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington D.C., The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery in New York.

  

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PA: JOHN BALDESSARI IN COLLABORATION WITH NAOMI SHOHAN
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MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT JOHN BALDESSARI
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JOHN BALDESSARI: PARSE
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JOHN BALDESSARI: A PRINT RETROSPECTIVE FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF JORDAN D. SCHNITZER AND HIS FAMILY FOUNDATION
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JOHN BALDESSARI: BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT
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JOHN BALDESSARI: MUSIC
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JOHN BALDESSARI & ALEJANDRO CESARCO: RETROSPECTIVE
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JOHN BALDESSARI: PRIMA FACIE
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JOHN BALDESSARI: FILMS TRANSFERRED TO VIDEO 1972-1977
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JOHN BALDESSARI: LIFE'S BALANCE 1984-2004
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JOHN BALDESSARI: A DIFFERENT KIND OF ORDER
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JOHN BALDESSARI
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JOHN BALDESSARI: WHILE SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE, SOMETHING ELSE IS HAPPENING THERE
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JOHN BALDESSARI & LAWRENCE WEINER: THE METAPHOR PROBLEM AGAIN
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JOHN BALDESSARI: TWO GESTURES AND ONE MARK
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JOHN BALDESSARI: NATIONAL CITY
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John Baldessari

In his essay, "God Knows: The Prints of John Baldessari," published in A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp writes, "Despite the artist's personal modesty, he is today acclaimed as one of the most important figures of the postwar era, as deserving of his place in art history as his personal heroes, Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian. And even Marcel Duchamp." Featured image is "Studio," photo offset lithograph with color screenprint, 1988.

John Baldessari: Parse

Edited by Beatrix Ruf.
Published by JRP|Ringier

John Baldessari (born 1931) is a luminary in the realms of Conceptual art and book art, and one of the most important figures in contemporary art of the last 40 years. Since his sensational Cremation Project of 1970, for which he incinerated every single painting he had made between 1953 and 1966, Baldessari's work has mined the tensions between language, image and sign-making. Baldessari unpicks the very mechanisms of media representation, and even the idea of artistic subject matter itself, using painting, photography, film/video, collage and reliefs, integrating images and text from advertising and movies into his works. Since 1980, Baldessari has worked mostly without text in serial photographs and pictures, and strategies such as overpainting, visual omissions and withheld information have increasingly taken on the earlier function of language. For this superbly designed book, Baldessari has designed a sequence of enigmatically fragmentary and geometrically emphatic images, arranged rhythmically across the volume's landscape format, that slowly accrete narrative as the reader-viewer moves through the book. These fragments, derived largely from B-movie stills, lead into a second chapter that reproduces the complete pictures. Juggling these themes of composition, information, omission and rhythm, Parse consolidates Baldessari's signature concerns into a great work of book art.

JOHN BALDESSARI: PARSE
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John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation

Text by Hunter Drohojowska-Philip.
Published by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-Legion of Honor/Jordan Schnitzer Family

Conceptual art veteran John Baldessari (born 1931) began making prints in the mid-1970s, and has placed printmaking at the center of his appropriative practice, in which found photographs of people are amended with colorful dots that blot out the heads of the subjects, redirecting the viewer's attention towards marginal detail. “In my work,” he says, “I found that I could be the master of my own universe and control what people see and pay attention to.” For Baldessari, keen as he is to minimize or erase his own manual presence, printmaking also helps to flatten out these collaged additions and interventions, heightening their sense of estrangement and beguiling anonymity. Many of Baldessari's prints series have been extremely influential, such as the 1970s Raw Prints series, for which he amended photos of Santa Monica mallgoers with abstracted shapes printed above the images that replicate details from them; this series was pivotal in democratizing photo-based prints in the art world. Since then, Baldessari has gone on to collaborate with some of the world's great printmakers, such as Brooke Alexander, Gemini G.E.L., Cirrus Editions, Edition Jacob Samuel, Mixographia and Crown Point Press. An essential volume in any contemporary art library, this first full survey of Baldessari's four-decade printmaking career is the definitive volume on the prints, and boasts 140 color plates alongside testimonies from his printmaking collaborators.

JOHN BALDESSARI: A PRINT RETROSPECTIVE FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF JORDAN D. SCHNITZER AND HIS FAMILY FOUNDATION
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John Baldessari: Brick Bldg, Lg Windows W/Xlent Views, Partially Furnished, Renowned Architect

Edited by Martin Hentschel. Text by John C. Welchman.
Published by Kerber

Commissioned to produce an installation for Mies van der Rohe's Museum Haus Lange, John Baldessari decided to “rub the building up the wrong way” with humorous interventions.

JOHN BALDESSARI: BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT
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John Baldessari: Music

Edited by John C. Welchman, Stefan Gronert, Christina Vegh.
Published by Walther König, Köln

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, photographs, videos and mixed media works spanning from 1970 through 2007, this compendium illustrates Baldessari’s complex relationship with text, image and sound, examining the centrality of music in his oeuvre. Featuring pieces such as the important 1972 video work, “Baldessari Sings LeWitt,” in which he set Sol LeWitt’s theoretical reflections on art to music, this connoisseur’s essential also includes many lesser-known and recent works--like a 2006 drum kit print with a yellow face over-painted in yellow and blue and a 2007 print series, Noses & Ears, Etc.

JOHN BALDESSARI: MUSIC
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