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Baldessari, John, 1931-2020.

John Baldessari : pure beauty / Jessica Morgan and Leslie Jones ; with contributions by Marie de Brugerolle [and others].

Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, ©2009.

329 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm

"John Boldessari: Pure Beauty, the most comprehensive volume to date on this legendary California artist, features more than 240 illustrations. Eleven insightfuL essays, by critics, curators, art historians, and an artist and former student, illuminate many aspects of Baldessari's oeuvre and provide a context for the artist's extraordinary contribution to twentieth and twenty-first century art. Few contemporary artists have achieved Baldessari's range and relevance and this stunning volume, with its expansive reproductions and substantial text, provides the definitive look at an artist who has engagingly challenged our very ways of seeing."--Jacket.

Baldessari, John, 1931-2020 -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Morgan, Jessica, 1968-

Jones, Leslie, 1966-

Brugerolle, Marie de.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Tate Modern (Gallery)

Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain)

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

Pure beauty

Title page appears on p. [11].

Catalog of an exhibition held Oct. 13, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010 at Tate Modern, London ; Feb. 11-Apr. 25, 2010 at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona ; June 27-Sept. 12, 2010 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; and Oct. 17, 2010-Jan. 9, 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-16) and index.

Foreword / Michael Govan -- Foreword / Vicente Todolí -- Choosing (a game for two curators) / Jessica Morgan -- Art lesson: a narrative chronology of John Baldessari's life and work / Leslie Jones -- "No success like failure": deskilling and collaboration in the work of John Baldessari / Douglas Eklund -- Unreliable narrator / Russell Ferguson -- Art subjects: physiognomy without a face / John C. Welchman -- The petit cinéma of John Baldessari / David Salle -- What do you do? / Tim Griffin -- Uncovering the hidden / Rainer Fuchs -- Wunderkammer images / Friedrich Meschede -- Doubly detached, doubly immersed / Bice Curiger -- Holy holograms from Hollywood: John Baldessari's dialectic imagery / Marie de Brugerolle.

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