John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume One: 1956-1974 (John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (757 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300174489 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Art Book Review said John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume One: 1956-197John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume One: 1956-1974 The Art Book Review "The normalcy of these images is not to be trusted. The attempts at snapping a bouncing ball in the center of the photograph, the choices of which fruits or beans or random snapshots are preferable to one person or another, the collections of clouds, the smokey attempts to mimic them, the tiny corners excerpted from paintings on large white fields, each with their own scattered body parts. "--Andrew Berardini on "John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume One: 1956-1974"Read the full review here: []. . "The normalcy of these images is not to be trusted. The attempts at snapping a bouncing ball in the center of the photograph, the choices of which fruits or beans or random snapshots are preferable to one person or another, the collections of clouds, the smokey attempts to mimic them, the tiny corners excerpted from paintings on large white fields, each with their own scattered body parts. "--Andrew Berardini on "John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume One: 1956-197John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume One: 1956-1974 The Art Book Review "The normalcy of these images is not to be trusted. The attempts at snapping a bouncing ball in the center of the photograph, the choices of which fruits or beans or random snapshots are preferable to one person or another, the collections of clouds, the smokey attempts to mimic them, the tiny corners excerpted from paintings on large white fields, each with their own scattered body parts. "--Andrew Berardini on "John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume One: 1956-1974"Read the full review here: []. "Read the full review here: []
The ashes of the cremated works were then baked into cookies, and the rest sealed in a book-shaped urn, which he then presented along with a plaque announcing the "life" and "death" dates. The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari (b. 1931) began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the subsequent decades he expanded his practice in a new and groundbreaking direction by juxtaposing texts with found photography or appropriated images. These texts questioned the nature of art and the art-viewing experience, suggesting new meanings for the images they accompanied. Included are such landmark works as the Cremation Project (1970), where Baldessari incinerated the "body" of work he had made between the years 1953 and 1966. This interaction of words and images remained a critical aspect of Baldessari's work, even as he branched into other media, such as site-specific installations, drawings, video, sculpture, prints, and multiples.The first of a projected four-volume set, this lavishly illustrated book features about 500 works and chronicles an important shift in Baldessari's thinking during these formative years. Baldessari's work and teaching have been greatly influential on a subsequent generation of artists.The book features an essay by Yve-Alain Bois considering Baldessari's ethos as a generator of his artistic p
“A fascinating artist”—Barry Schwabsky, Bookforum