Hans Ulrich Obrist

John Baldessari

Meg Cranston

Presents miscellaneous writings from the artist, including descriptions of artwork, recipes, and poems.

More Than You Wanted to Know about John Baldessari

Joseph Beuys

Peter Fischli

David Weiss

Dan Graham

Geoffrey Batchen

Barbara Kruger

Giovanni Anselmo

Bas Jan Ader

Douglas Fogle

Richard Flood

Vito Acconci

Kathy Halbreich

Mel Bochner

Jan Dibbets

Pamela Lee

Christian Boltanski

Sol Lewitt

Sarah Charlesworth

Valie Export

Stefan Gronnert

Broodthaers, Marcel.

Artists Using Photography 1960-1982

The Last Picture Show

Sharon Coplan Hurowitz

John Baldessari, conceptual artist and teacher, has lived and worked in California all his life. Considered a pioneer of postmodern ideas in the 1970s, he came to prominence with his early text paintings and moved on to photographic images paired with text. He has maintained his interest in the relationship of words and imagery, of delighting in the absurd, and pointing out the irony in contemporary art theory for more than 35 years. Baldessari has been active as a printmaker since 1970; The Prints of John Baldessari, A Catalogue Raison marks the first comprehensive accounting of this tremendous body of work and the influence this artist has had on the international art world. AUTHORS: Sharon Coplan Hurowitz is a New York-based art consultant and prints researcher. Wendy Weitman, until 2007, was curator in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she had worked since 1980. In addition to curating a number of important exhibitions, Ms. Weitman has taught and lectured widely on prints in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. SELLING POINTS: The first definitive study of print work of this prolific artist's career that has spanned nearly forty years Baldessari is a recipient of the Americans for the Arts' Lifetime Achievement Award This publication features recently completed work that has never been published 195 colour & 50 b/w illustrations

A Catalogue Raisonné of Prints and Multiples, 1971-2007

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, July 9-Nov. 8, 2009, the Palm Springs Museum of Art, Jan.-Mar. 2011 and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Feb.-May, 2012.

A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Yours in Food, John Baldessari

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Jeff Koons

Mark Lawrence Rosenthal

Chuck Close

Vija Celmins

Alex Katz

Robert Gober

Deborah Kass

Hans Haacke

Ian Alteveer

Andy Warhol Museum

Alfredo Jaar

Marla Prather

Luc Tuymans

Julian Schnabel

Rebecca Lowery

Polly Apfelbaum

Ryan Trecartin

This sumptuous volume presents the first full-scale exploration of warhol's tremendous influence across the generations of artists that have succeeded him. Warhol brought to the art world a unique awareness of the relationship that art might have with popular consumer culture and tabloid news, with celebrity, and with sexuality. Each of these themes is explored through visual dialogues between warhol and some sixty artists, among them John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Elizabeth Peyton, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Luc Tuymans. These juxtapositions not only demonstrate warhol's overt influence but also suggest how artists have either worked in parallel modes or developed his model in dynamic new directions. Featuring commentary by many of the world's leading contemporary artists, as well as a major essay by the celebrated critic Mark Rosenthal and an extensive illustrated chronology, Regarding Warhol is an out-standing publication that will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in contemporary art.

Sixty Artists, Fifty Years

Regarding Warhol

Dominic Molon

Jane Farver

Paul Pfeiffer

The basketball player dunks, and dunks, and dunks again. The boxer punches, and punches, and punches again. Using advanced technology to transform and isolate moments from movies and televised sporting events, Paul Pfeiffer's work examines contemporary notions of racial and sexual identity and how we respond to the human body when it is placed in extreme situations such as ecstasy and pain. Pfeiffer's work also explores issues of time and the increasingly blurry distinction between reality and representation in everyday life. Recent installation pieces transfer mediated, image-based knowledge into physical spaces, with references to movies like "The Amityville Horror." This catalog, the first significant publication devoted to Pfeiffer's work, includes full-color reproductions, biographical and bibliographic information, scholarly essays by MCA associate curator Dominic Molon and MIT List director Jane Farver, a discussion between Pfeiffer and renowned conceptual artist John Baldessari, and a text by Pfeiffer himself.

Frederic Tuten

Tracey R. Bashkoff

John Hanhardt

Essays by Tracey Bashkoff, John Hanhardt, Frederic Tuten and Russell Ferguson.

Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (with Orange)

Marie de Brugerolle

Retrace la carrière de l'artiste John Baldessari à travers ses oeuvres majeures, de ses premières peintures de 1962 à "Blockage" en 2005.

From Life, édition bilingue français-anglais

This book contains photographs of events, each placed into chapters, with each photograph having an increasing number of sides.

Close-cropped Tales

Museum Haus Lange Krefeld

The works of John Baldessari, pioneer of American Conceptual Art and one of the most famous contemporary artists, have in recent years, been more closely linked to specific exhibition spaces. He took up the challenge of producing an installation for the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld and radically turned the architecture of the building on its head ndash; a first in Baldessari's oeuvre. Here he consistently 'rubs' the basic elements of the Mies van der Rohe building 'up the wrong way', producing something astonishing and new. The viewer is drawn into a hybrid unit of pictures and architectonic set pieces where the paradigms of modern construction are deconstructed. They lose their gravity in the undertow of the enigmatic humour of his intervention. Here Baldessari's work can be viewed as a subversive contribution to Bauhaus Year 2009. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Museum Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, March ndash; July 2009.

brick bldg, LG windows W/Xlent views, partially furnished, renowned architect : Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jessica Morgan

Leslie Jones

Tate Modern (Gallery)

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. More than 400 illustrations are presented in full colour in this monograph published in conjunction with a major exhibition organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Tate Modern in London. Eleven essays by critics, curators, art historians, and an artist and former student of Baldessari's round out this volume. Few contemporary artists have achieved the range and relevance of Baldessari's oeuvre, which is finally given its due in this elegant retrospective book.

Pure Beauty

John Baldessari

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