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In The Studio: John Baldessari ARTINFO, NY - Dec 1, 2008 After nearly four decades of making and teaching art in Los Angeles, John Baldessari, 77, has arguably become the éminence grise of the city’s art scene. ...

John Baldessari: 'Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads', 2008 Art Daily - Nov 23, 2008 JB John Baldessari has been an innovative force in contemporary art redefining its parameters to include its role as a visual evocation of language, ...

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Yours in Food, John Baldessari: with meditations on eating by Paul Auster, David Byrne, Dave Eggers, David Gilbert, Tim Griffin, Andy Grundberg, John Haskell, ... O'Brien, Francine Prose, and Peter Schjeldah

by: John Baldessari
In John Baldessari's new book, Yours in Food, the founding member of the conceptual art movement explores America at the table, savoring the nuances of breaking bread in carefully composed vignettes culled appropriated video and film.
Reflections on food and eating specially commissioned from a smorgasbord of contemporary writers on culture and the arts, from novelist David Eggers to musician David Byrne, offer up the perfect accompaniment to Baldessari's work. Paired with his images, these humorous, insightful, and, in some cases, bizarre meditations investigate one of the most fundamental and telling of all human experiences.

Pulcherrimae Strade: Contemporary Art in Historical Spaces

by: Andres Serrano, Marina Abramovic, John Armleder, John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Enzo Cucchi, Jenny Holzer, Paul McCarthy, Tom Sachs, Lawrence Weiner, Mike Bidlo
Friuli Venezia Giulia is a region in the north-east of Italy, bordered by Austria and Yugoslavia, and dotted with vineyards, seaside resorts, Gothic duomos, Romanesque towns, grottoes, contemporary art, and Roman ruins. Many of these elements in the landscape have been around for hundreds of years, but one has not: contemporary art. Yet throughout this region works by Marina Abramovic, John Armleder, John Baldessari, Mike Bidlo, Louise Bourgeois, Paul McCarthy, Enzo Cucchi, Jenny Holzer, Tom Sachs, Andres Serrano, and Lawrence Weiner amongst others have occupied castles, squares, gardens, churches, landmark buildings, basements, and kitchens.

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by: Tracey Bashkoff, 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.

Again the Metaphor Problem and Other Engaged Critical Discourses about Art: A Conversation between John Baldessari, Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner, moderated ... / Art and Architecture in Discussion)

by: John Baldessari, Liam Gillick, Lawrence Weiner, Beatrix Ruf

Seit Beginn ihrer Karrieren in den 1960er Jahren sind die amerikanischen Künstler John Baldessari und Lawrence Weiner befreundet. In New York treffen sie den britischen Künstler Liam Gillick zu dem von Beatrix Ruf, Direktorin der Kunsthalle Zürich, moderierten Gespräch.

Die Metapher, seit jeher als künstlerisches Verfahren in Verwendung, ist ein wichtiges Problem im Werk dieser drei Künstler, die mit Sprache, Filmbildern und Installationen arbeiten. Im Gespräch eröffnen sich neue Erkenntnisse über die Metapher, über die Funktion der Kunst, über Architektur und über die Rollen und Interessen der Künstler und der Vermittler von Kunst.

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