| More Than You Wanted to Know about John Baldessari: Volume 1 Contributor(s): Baldessari, John, Cranston, Meg (Editor), Obrist, Hans Ulrich (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3037641924 ISBN-13: 9783037641927 Publisher: Jrp Ringier OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Essays - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 709.04 |
| Series: Documents |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.50 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This first volume of JRPRingier's complete John Baldessari writings project traces the genesis and development of the artist's understanding of art in the early 1960s. More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents Baldessari as storyteller, moralist, teacher and occasional gadfly, always concerned to accomplish what he describes as the central task of art making: to communicate in a way that people can understand. These writings address everything from matters of color in sculpture, to the dilemmas of art students in need of ideas, to the art world's ever-conflicted relationship with money, while always returning to Baldessari's love of language and his longstanding investigation into the tensions of word and image. With numerous never-before-published texts and facsimiles of original documents, this long-anticipated collection will prove essential reading for anyone involved in contemporary art. |