John Baldessari
Subtitle: pure beauty
By: Jessica Morgan and Leslie Jones ; with contributions by Marie de Brugerolle ... [et al.].
Contributors: Morgan, Jessica, 1968-; Jones, Leslie; 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.)
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; DelMonico Books/Prestel
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Los Angeles; Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9783791343457; 9780875872025; 9783791362403
Other titles: Pure beauty
Notes: 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, 2011at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-16) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Michael Govan; title: Foreword / Vicente Todolí; title: Choosing (a game for two curators) / Jessica Morgan; title: Art lesson: a narrative chronology of John Baldessari's life and work / Leslie Jones; title: "No success like failure": deskilling and collaboration in the work of John Baldessari / Douglas Eklund; title: Unreliable narrator / Russell Ferguson; title: Art subjects: physiognomy without a face / John C. Welchman; title: The petit cinéma of John Baldessari / David Salle; title: What do you do? / Tim Griffin; title: Uncovering the hidden / Rainer Fuchs; title: Wunderkammer images / Friedrich Meschede; title: Doubly detached, doubly immersed / Bice Curiger; title: Holy holograms from Hollywood: John Baldessari's dialectic imagery / Marie de Brugerolle.