John Baldessari
By Ann-Sofi Nornig, Gitte Orskou, Matilda Olof-Ors, and John Baldessari
Over the course of his 50-year career, John Baldessari never stopped exploring the seemingly infinite ways that words and images can be manipulated to create new layers of narrative meaning in art. Initially, a more traditional painter, in the 1960s Baldessari found himself drawn to a combination of text and photography as the most effective vehicles for his creative intentions. Many of Baldessariās pieces directly address the viewer with hand-painted questions about the nature of art: inĀ What Is PaintingĀ (1966-68), Baldessari asks through the canvas, āDo you sense how all the parts of a good picture are involved with each other, not just placed side by sideā This piece, in particular, seems to summarize Baldessariās focus on the recontextualization of familiar images that would define his artistic practice for years to come.
Alongside reproductions of select work, this publication features a wide selection of Baldessariās own writings from 1968 to 2011, providing further insight into the myriad critical ideas already conveyed in the artistās work.
- Walther Kƶnig, 2020
- Softcover, 128 pages
- 11 x 9 inches
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John Baldessari
John Baldessari
By Ann-Sofi Nornig, Gitte Orskou, Matilda Olof-Ors, and John Baldessari
Over the course of his 50-year career, John Baldessari never stopped exploring the seemingly infinite ways that words and images can be manipulated to create new layers of narrative meaning in art. Initially, a more traditional painter, in the 1960s Baldessari found himself drawn to a combination of text and photography as the most effective vehicles for his creative intentions. Many of Baldessariās pieces directly address the viewer with hand-painted questions about the nature of art: inĀ What Is PaintingĀ (1966-68), Baldessari asks through the canvas, āDo you sense how all the parts of a good picture are involved with each other, not just placed side by sideā This piece, in particular, seems to summarize Baldessariās focus on the recontextualization of familiar images that would define his artistic practice for years to come.
Alongside reproductions of select work, this publication features a wide selection of Baldessariās own writings from 1968 to 2011, providing further insight into the myriad critical ideas already conveyed in the artistās work.
- Walther Kƶnig, 2020
- Softcover, 128 pages
- 11 x 9 inches
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By Ann-Sofi Nornig, Gitte Orskou, Matilda Olof-Ors, and John Baldessari
Over the course of his 50-year career, John Baldessari never stopped exploring the seemingly infinite ways that words and images can be manipulated to create new layers of narrative meaning in art. Initially, a more traditional painter, in the 1960s Baldessari found himself drawn to a combination of text and photography as the most effective vehicles for his creative intentions. Many of Baldessariās pieces directly address the viewer with hand-painted questions about the nature of art: inĀ What Is PaintingĀ (1966-68), Baldessari asks through the canvas, āDo you sense how all the parts of a good picture are involved with each other, not just placed side by sideā This piece, in particular, seems to summarize Baldessariās focus on the recontextualization of familiar images that would define his artistic practice for years to come.
Alongside reproductions of select work, this publication features a wide selection of Baldessariās own writings from 1968 to 2011, providing further insight into the myriad critical ideas already conveyed in the artistās work.
- Walther Kƶnig, 2020
- Softcover, 128 pages
- 11 x 9 inches
