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"Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line" is the delightfully playful title of a 1973 work by John Baldessari in which the artist repeatedly ... The Wooster Group Hosts First Benefit Art Auction 3/15
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The Prints of John Baldessari: A Catalogue Raisonne 1971-2007

by: Sharon Coplan Hurowitz, Wendy Weitman
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 Lifetime Achievement Award; a retrospective of his work will be on view at the Tate Modern in 2009.
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John Baldessari: Pure Beauty

by: Jessica Morgan, Leslie Jones
A major figure in contemporary art, John Baldessari is widely considered one of the most influential artists to emerge since the mid-1960s. From his early text-and-image paintings to his more recent photo collages and installations, Baldessari has continued to make art that addresses the social impact of mass culture, often playfully through strategies of appropriation and deconstruction. Baldessari's lifelong interest in language, written and visual, and the interaction between the two, raises questions about the nature of communication and perception.
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John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation

by: Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, John Baldessari
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.
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John Baldessari

by: John Baldessari, Richard Serra
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 cropping them in conjunction with written texts. The resulting montage of photography and language often counters the narrative associations suggested by the isolated scenes and offers a greater plurality of meanings.
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