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The most recent series by one of the most important conceptual and media artists
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Contemporary art on the occasion of the Städel anniversary
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John Baldessari
The Städel Paintings
John Baldessari is an important American conceptual artists and the last member of the American post-war avant-garde. His large collages, created for the Frankfurt exhibition, draw on masterpieces at the Städel, from Lucas Cranach the Elder to Maria Lassnig. A multifaceted opposition and juxtaposition of old and new art is revealed by the texts and photographs.
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By destroying all of his paintings created from 1953 to 1966 in 1970, John Baldessari (*1931) paved the way for an independent and unmistakeable pictorial style between painting and photography, text and image. He employs classic Modernist pictorial strategies such as montage and the integration of everyday elements in order to confront these with artistic practices of the post-war avant-gardes, such as discourses on consumerism and the media. Baldessari intertwines media and materials and thereby combines entirely distinct groups of artistic subjects. In the process, the unambiguousness of the pictorial language has given way to a multi-layered readability.
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In a typical move for Baldessari, the large-scale collages that result will pit text against image, likely with more than a hint of sardonic humor.
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Ed. Martin Engler
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Essays by J. Baumann, M. Engler, D. Salle; incl. an interview with John Baldessari and Philipp Kaiser
English-German Edition
176 pages, 78 colour illustrations
28 × 28 cm, hardcover
English-German Edition
176 pages, 78 colour illustrations
28 × 28 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-2449-1
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