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| John Baldessari, Everything is purged...1966-68 |
John Baldessari died on 2 January 2020.
"I just stare at something and say: Why isn't that art? Why couldn't that be art? (
Finkel, 2020)
Find everything you need to know about John Baldessari -
the guy that put dots over people's faces - in
A Brief History of John Baldessari - a film narrated by Tom Waits (
he's got a great voice).
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| A Brief History of John Baldessari (dir. Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2012; 5'55") Click on image to watch video. |
Some works of art by John Baldessari.
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| John Baldessari, Pure Beauty, 1966-68 |
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| John Baldessari, This is Not to Be Looked At, 1968 |
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| John Baldessari, Pencil Story, 1971-2 |
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| John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971 (video, 13'6") |
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| John Baldessari, Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty Six Attempts), 1973 (detail) |
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| John Baldessari, Exterior Views, 1986 (detail) |
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| John Baldessari, Cutting Ribbon, Man in Wheelchair, Painting, 1988 (detail) |
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| John Baldessari, Violent Space Series: Two Stares Making a Point but Blocked by a Plane (for Malevich), 1976 |
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| John Baldessari, Learn to Dream, 2011 |
Some obituaries and articles.
Oliver Basciano (2020) "
John Baldessari: the giant prankster who torched artworld pretension",
The Guardian
Sarah Cascone (2020) "
The Wry Teacher...",
artnet news
Jori Finkel (2020) "
John Baldessari, Who Gave Conceptual Art a Dose of Wit...",
New York Times
Alex Greenberger (2020)
"
John Baldessari, Fearless Conceptual Artist...",
ARTnews
Anny Shaw (2020) "
'Godfather of Conceptual Art'...",
The Art Newspaper
Zachary Small (2020) "
Friends and Former Students of the Late John Baldessari look Back...",
artnet news
