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. A visual and intellectual feast, Yours in Food is sure to entertain and delight readers of fiction, art history, and cultural criticism and all lovers of food. A Blind Spot Book published by Princeton Architectural Press.
As ludic and non-authoritarian as John Baldessari's art, this new monograph on the "father of Conceptual art" is dedicated to his practice as an artist and a teacher, and the many ways in which both practices intertwine in his life.Having been trained as an arts educator, John Baldessari is today renowned for his work as much as for his innovative post studio class at CalArts, Los Angeles, where he has formed many generations of artists and participated in shaping the West Coast art scene.Visually organized in alphabetical order, Learning to Read from John Baldessari -- which accompanies a retrospective of his work at Museo Jumex, Mexico City, a comprehensive essay on the artist's approaches to art making and teaching, a biography of the artist as a teacher, artworks reproduced thematically, and many stories and anecdotes told by former students such as Liz Craft, Ed Henderson, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, David Salle, about their years at CalArts, and the uniqueness and serious playfulness of their formation.Emphasizing Baldessari's works in which language, task making, and learning processes are tackled, this publication highlights what the artist describes as the central function of art making: to communicate in a way that people can understand.Published with Museo Jumex, Mexico City.Accompanies the exhibition, Learning to Read from John Baldessari at Museo Jumex, Mexico City (11 November 2017 - 08 April 2018).
A witty and elegant visual exchange around the uses and functions of chairs doubles as an excuse to address a number of the artists' interests and working methodologies. A conversation that has developed through years of friendship, deep admiration and understanding of each other's work, this book presents Baldessari and Bloom at the peak of their form.
Edited by Edelbert Kab and Peter Pakesch. Essays by Rainer Fuchs, Matt Mullican, Anne Rorimer, Marie de Brugerolle, Winfried Pauleit, Hans Dieter Huber, Klaus Hoffer, Gertrud Koch, Ann Goldstein and Christopher Williams.
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