About the Author

John Baldessari is best known for his conceptual works that focus on the processes of choice and selection, and that employ a wide range of what were in the beginning of his career non-traditional mediums: photographs, words, texts. In his word paintings from the 1960s, he poses questions about the nature of art - what it is, what it is not, what it looks like, etc. In addition, Baldessari's status as a teacher in Los Angeles is unparalleled also in relation to his understanding that teaching and making art are directly related in their mutual reliance upon a combination of the visual and the verbal to convey ideas through telling stories. Matilda Olof-Ors is an assistant curator at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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