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Catalogs Solo Shows


2014 Pardo, Patrick/ Dean, Robert: 'John Baldessari: Catalogue Raisonne: Volume Two: 1975-1986', Yale University Press, New Haven

2013 Cranston, Meg / Obrist, Hans Ulrich (eds.), 'Baldessari: More than you wanted to know' (vols. 1 & 2), Zürich

2013 Fowle, Kate (ed.): 'John Baldessari 1+1=1', Center for Contempory Culture London / Moscow

2012 Baldessari, John: 'Picture in a Frame’, Distanz, Berlin.

2012 'John Baldessari', Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar

2012 Pardo, Patrick / Dean, Robert (eds.): 'John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné', New Haven, Yale University Press.

2010 John Baldessari: Raised Eybrows/Furroewd Foreheads, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.

2010 Furlong, William: 'Speaking of Art', Phaidon, London.

2010 Mallory Kotz, Vanessa (ed.): 'Thanks for being with us: Contemporary art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection', Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, USA.

2009 John Baldessari: Pure Beauty', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles / New York et.al..

2009 Conversation Series 18: John Baldessari, Hans Ulrich Obrist', Cologne.

2009 John Baldessari: BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT', Bielefeld.

2009 John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, etc. (Part Four)', Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich.

2009 Drohoiowska-Philip, Hunter: 'John Baldessari: A Print Retroperspective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation', Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Fine Art Museum San Francisco, San Francisco.

2009 Coplan Hurowitz, Sharon: 'John Baldessari: A Catalogue Raisonné of Prints and Multiples, 1971-1997', Hudson Hills Press, Manchester.

2008 John Baldessari: BACA Laureate 2008', Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht.

2008 John Baldessari: Arms & Legs, etc. (Specif. Elbows & Knees, Etc.)', Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris.

2007 John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Three). Los Angeles: Margo Leavin Gallery. Includes text by Liam Gillick.

2007 John Baldessari: Beethoven's Trumpet: In One Ear & Out the Same Ear. Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago. Includes texts by Kathy Cottong and Anne Rorimer.

2007 Gronert, Stefan, and Christina Végh, editors. John Baldessari: Music. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. Includes texts by Stefan Gronert, Christina Végh, and John C. Welchman.

2007 John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc. Lisbon: Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art. Includes text by Jens Hoffman.

2006 John Baldessari: The Prima Facie Series. Deurle (Belgium): Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. Contains Ann Cesteleyn interview of JB, John Baldessari: Visionary / Diabolic.

2006 John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Two). New York: Marian Goodman Gallery. Includes text by Rainer Fuchs.

2005 John Baldessari: From Life, Carré d’art Musée d’art with L’École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Includes texts by John Baldessari, Christian Boltansky, Marie de Brugerolle, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordan, Philippe-Alain Michaud, John Miller, Gary Simmons, Robert Storr, Lawrence Weiner, and John C. Welchman.

2005 Fournier, Jean-Paul, and Daniel J. Valade, editors. John Baldessari: Life’s Balance, Work 84 - 04, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. Icludes texts by Adam Budak, Klaus Hoffer, Hans Dieter Huber, Gertrud Koch, and Peter Pakesch. Includes a conversation between John Baldessari, Ann Goldstein, and Christopher Williams.

2005 Fuchs, Rainer, editor. John Baldessari: A Different Kind of Order (Works 1962-1984), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. Includes texts by Marie de Brugerolle, Rainer Fuchs, Winfried Pauleit, and Ann Rorimer. Includes a conversation between John Baldessari, Tracey Bashkoff, and Matt Mullican.

2004 John Baldessari: Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (With Orange), New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications. Includes texts by Tracey Bashkoff, Russell Ferguson, John G. Hanhardt and Frederic Tuten.

2003 Drift. Lisbon: Centro Cultural de Belem. Includes texts by Delfim Sardo.

2001 Baldessari: While Something Is Happening Here, Something Else Is Happening There: Works 1965-2001. Reykjavik: Reykjavik Art Museum. Includes texts by Meg Cranston, Frank-Alexander Hettig, Dave Hickey, Eirikur Thorlasksson, Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson, and Thomas Weski.

2000 John Baldessari. Milan: Skira. Includes texts by Gabriella Belli, Meg Cranston, Diedrich Diederichsen, and Thomas Weski.

1999 Ich Haben Es Gesehen: John Baldessari und Goya. Vienna: Graphische Sammlung Albertina. Includes texts by Colin Gardner and Victoria Martino.

1999 Baldessari: While Something Is Happening Here, Something Else Is Happening There: Works 1988-1999. Hannover (Germany): Sprengel Museum Hannover. Includes texts by Meg Cranston, Diedrich Diederichsen and Thomas Weski.

1999 John Baldessari, Tetrad Series. New York: Marian Goodman Gallery. Essay by Thomas McEvilley.

1998 Baldessari - RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS, AND PLANTS. (NEW). Zurich: Museum Für Gegenwartskunst Zürich, 1998. Includes texts by Bartomeu Marí, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, and Rein Wolfs.

1996 Davies, Hugh and Andrea Hales, editors. John Baldessari: National City. San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art. Includes text by David Antin, Jan Avgikos, Bice Curiger, Hugh M. Davies, Andrea Hales, Dave Hickey, Anne Rorimer, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and an interview of JB by Hugh Davies and Andrea Hales, conducted in November 1995.

1996 Prinzhorn, Martin. John Baldessari. Vienna: Hochschule für angewandte Kunst Wien.

1996 John Baldessari. Seoul: Pyo Gallery.

1995 Snoddy, Stephen. This Not That. Manchester (United Kingdom): Cornerhouse. Includes texts by Alexandre Melo, Uta Nusser and Igor Zabel. Also Guide Yourself Through the Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, June 9, printed in Art Monthly (London).

1992 John Baldessari. Santiago de Compostela (Spain): Casa Da Parra.

1990 Bruggen, Coosje van. John Baldessari. New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc.. Published in conjunction with John Baldessari, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

1989 Ni Por Ésas / Not Even So: John Baldessari, Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura; Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana (Spanish and French editions). Includes texts by Guadalupe Echevarría, Jean-Louis Froment (French edition only), Thomas Lawson, John Miller, and Vicente Todolí.

1989 John Baldessari: Photoarbeiten. Hanover (West Germany): Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover. Includes text by Germano Celant, introduction by Carl Haenlein.

1987 John Baldessari: Composition for Violin and Voices (males). Grenoble (France): Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble.

1986 John Baldessari: California Viewpoints. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Includes text by Hunter Drohojowska.

1981 John Baldessari: with texts by Marcia Tucker, Robert Pincus-Witten and an interview by Nancy Drew. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art; Dayton, OH: University Art Galleries, Wright State University. Published in conjunction with John Baldessari: Work 1966 ­ 1980 at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and John Baldessari: Art as Riddle, at the University Art Galleries, Wright State University.

1981 Debbaut, Jan, editor. John Baldessari. Eindhoven (The Netherlands): Municipal Van Abbemuseum; Essen (West Germany): Museum Folkwang. Includes texts by Rudi Fuchs and John Baldessari, and interview of JB by Rudi Fuchs. Published on the occasion of the exhibition John Baldessari: Werken 1966 - 1981 at the Municipal Van Abbemuseum and the Museum Folkwang Essen.

1979 Sauer, Christel, editor. Dokumentation 4. Zurich: InK, 1979. Includes texts by John Baldessari, Peter Blum, Patrick Frey, and Christel Sauer.


Selected Catalogs Group Shows


2007 Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007, p. 23, illus. p. 312. Includes text by Jock Reynolds.

2007 Sounding the Subject: Video Trajectories: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust. Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2007, pp. 26-27, 54, illus. p. 55. Exhibition catalog for two exhibitions (Sounding the Subject and Video Trajectories; JB work included only in Video Trajectories). Includes texts by Daniel Birnbaum, Caroline A. Jones, and Mechtild Widrich.

2007 Davidson, Susan, (ed.): . Art in the USA: 300 ańos de innovación. Bilbao (Spain): Guggenheim Bilbao, pp. 238-239.

2007 Pepe Cobo Y Sus Máquinas. Zaragoza (Spain): Diputación de Zaragoza, Palacio de Sástago, pp. 18, 22, illus. pp. 66-67. Includes texts by José Antonio Chacón Álvarez, J. Félix Machuca, Javier Lambán Mantańés, and Guillermo Paneque.

2007 Stella Art Foundation and Sigmund Freud Foundation present: The Contemporary Art Collection of the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna in Moscow. Moscow: Stella Kay, pp. 2, 8, illus p. 9. Includes texts by Stella Kay, Boris Manner, Peter Pakesch, Susan Schwarz, and Inge Scholz-Strasser.

2007 Tunnicliffe, Wayne, (ed.): . An Incomplete World: Works from the UBS Art Collection. Sydney (Australia): Art Gallery of New South Wales; Melbourne (Australia): National Gallery of Victoria, pp. 30- 33, 171, illus. p. 33. Includes essays by Jason Smith and Wayne Tunnicliffe.

2006 LeWitt x2, Sol LeWitt: Structure and Line: Selections from the LeWitt Collection. Madison, WI: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006, p. 41. Includes texts by Martin Friedman and Dean Swanson.

2006 Six Feet Under: Autopsie unseres Umgangas mit Toten / Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead. Leipzig/Bielefeld (Germany): Kunstmuseum Bern and Kerber Verlag, 2006. Includes texts by Elisabeth Bronfen, Bernhard Fibicher, Matthias Frehner, Susanne Friedli, Helga Lutz, Thomas Macho, Hans Christoph von Tavel, and Regula Tschumi.

2006 Public Space / Two Audiences: works and documents from the Herbert Collection: inventaire. Barcelona (Spain): Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Graz (Austria): Kunsthaus Graz, pp. 84-89, illus. pp. 85-89. Includes essays by Manuel J. Bora-Villel, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Anton Herbert, Hans-Joachim Müller, Peter Pakesh, and Anne Rorimer.

2006 Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images. Ghent (Belgium): Ludion; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art,, pp. 12, 208-211, 243.

2006 Wolfe, Ann M. Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl. Santa Fe, NM: Center for American Places; San Jose, CA: San Jose Museum of Art,, p. 21, illus. p. 24. Includes text by Lucy R. Lippard.

2006 Newland, Joseph N., (ed.): . The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture: 60 Years. Waterville, ME: Colby College Museum of Art, pp. 62-63.

2006 Bowman, Rob and Jens Hoffmann, (eds.): Surprise, Surprise. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts.

2006 Walker, Barry. Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980–1994. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; New Haven: Yale University Press.

2006 Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960’s-2000s: From Lichtenstein, Warhol to the Current Generation. Tokyo: Sieji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, p. 28.

2006 Broken Surface. Munich: Sabine Knust Mattias Kunz Editions, pp. 8-9. Includes texts by Zdenek Felix.

2006 Grenier, Catherine, (ed.): . Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital. Paris: Centre Pompidou, Panamamusees, 2006, pp. 14, 26, 27, 39-40, 81, 90, 125, 209, 219, 238, 277, 283, 294, 306, 325, 338, 355, 365, 370, illus. 123, 182, 183, 206, 213, 228, 246-247, 267, 272-273, 315, 331, 353, 366-367. Includes texts by Howard N. Fox, Catherine Grenier, and David E. James.

2006 Freud and Contemporary Art: The Collection of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna. New York: Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 2006, pp. 3, 4, 10, illus. pp. 11, 44. Includes texts by Peter Pakesch and Inge Scholz-Strasser.

2005 Hablando Con Las Manos: Fotografías De La Colección Buhl, Essays by Jennifer Blessing and Ralph Rugoff, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York, and Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, Pp. 146 — 147.

2005 Los Angeles Printmaking Society 18th National Exhibition, Armory center for the Arts, Two Hands Press, Woddlandhills, CA. Castle Press, Pasadena, CA, 2005, Pp. 5-6

2005 Drawing from the Modern 1975 - 2005, September 14, 2005 — January 9, 2006, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Published by the Museum of Modern Art, 2005, illus. P.27

2004 Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s — 70s. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and The MIT Press, Cambridge MA. P 216, illus. 176.

2004 Groos, Ulrike; Hess, Barbara; Wevers, Ursula; ed., Ready to Shoot/Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum/videogalerie schum, texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Eric de Bruyn, Ulrike Groos, Charles Harrison, Barbara Hess, and Ursula Wevers, interview with Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 2004, English edition. PP. 236-237, illus. 237.

2004 Singsen, Judith A., The RISD Museum, ed., On The Wall: Contemporary Wallpaper, texts by Marion Boulton Stroud and Judith Tannenbaum, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, 2003, PP. 2, 4, 6, 11, 12, 26, 27, 44, 47, 50, 51, illus. 6, 11, 12, 51, front and back cover.

2004 Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Joan Miro Foundation. Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain..

2004 QSL 107.1 FM, A temporary radio project and audio publication. Broadcast May 30-31 2004. Middlesbrough, Victoria Square. A project by Kelly Large hosted by Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima). Pp. 21. Includes compact disc.

2002 Biesenbach, Klaus, with Barbara London and Chistopher Eamon. Video Acts: Single Channel Works From the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust. P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, 2002.

2002 Comer o no Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat), Salamanca 2002, Centro de Arts de Salamanca, Spain, November 23, 2002 — January 19, 2003, Pp. 348, 349, 521 illus. 349.

2002 Limits de la Percepcio. Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain, 2002, catalogue essay by Teresa Blanch, illustrations pp 28 — 33, back cover.

2002 Conceptual Art in the Netherlands and Belgium 1965-1975. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Nai Publishers, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2002.

2002 Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America. Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 2002. Illustration, p 66.

2002 Sans Commune Mesure: Image et Texte dans l’Art Actuel. Editions Leo Scheer, Paris, France, 2002. Illustration: pp 74-75.

2002 A Show That Will Show That a Show is Not Only a Show. Edition Valerio, Paris/Berlin, and the Project, Los Angeles, 2002.

2002 Museum Unserer Wunsche (Museum of Our Wishes). Edited by Kasper Konig, in collaboration with Thomas Weski and Ulrich Wilmes, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany, January 11 — April 28.

2002 Pulchierrimae Strade: Contemporary Art in Historical Spaces. Edited by Gianni Salvaterra, texts by Gianni Salvaterra and Robert Rosenblum, Edizioni Charta, Milan, Italy.

2001 Conception: Conceptual Documents 1968 to1972. Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, England, and Article Press, Birmingham, England, in an edition of 1000.

2001 Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2001, p 199. This was accompanied by a second volume, Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.

2001 Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Edited by Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernstein, and Ilene Susan Fort, University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2001, pp 280-283. Anthology published on the occasion of Made in California.

2001 Landmarks: Sculpture Commissions for the Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 2001.

2001 Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera, 1960-1999. California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA. October 11 — December 8, 2001.

2001 Secession: Projekt Fassade. Texts by Matthias Herrmann, Isolde Charim, Eleonora Louis, Secession, die Kunstlerlnnen, Sutorinnen, Fotografen, Wein, Austria.

2000 Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty. Text by Lisa Lyons, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2000.

2000 Quartett: August 1968 September 2000 Baldessari, Kabakov, Kosith, Pistoletto. Schwabe & Co. AG, and Verlag Basel Kunsthalle Basel, 2000. With texts by Peter Pakesch, John Baldessari, Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth and Michelangelo Pistoletto.

1999 Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century. Neal Benezra and Olga M. Viso: with an essay by Arthur C. Danto. Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1999 Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s. Queens Museum of Art, New York.

1999 Trouble Spot Painting. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, Belgium, 1999. Texts by Cyril Jarton, Wim Peeters, Hans Rudolf Reust, and Vincent Geyskens.

1999 Billboard, Art on the Road. Laura Steward Heon, Peggy Diggs and Joseph Thompson. Mass MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.

1999 Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art. Kerry Brougher, Michael Tarantino and Astrid Bowron, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, England.

1998 Artificial Figuracions Contemporanies. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain. 1998.

1998 Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films: Moving Out, Part Two. The Museum of Modern Art/ San Francisco Cinematheque, February 6, 1998 — April 26, 2001.

1997 Sunshine & Noir Art in L.A. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Denmark. 1997

1997 Scene of the Crime. UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, The University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA. 1997

1997 Finders/Keepers. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. 1997.

1997 22nd Mednarodni graficni bienale international biennial of graphic art. Modern Gallery National Museum of Slovania Tivoli Gallery.

1997 Obrist, H.U., Rollig, S. Traveling Eye. Museum in Progress. Vienna, Austria. 1997.

1996 Sex & Crime. Von den Verhältnissen der Menschen, Sprrengel Museum, Hannover: Germany, February 18 — May 12, 1996.

1996 Bonnie Clearwater. Painting Into Photography. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, 1996.

1996 Art and Film Since 1945, Hall of Mirrors. Museum of Contemporary Art: Los Angeles, 1998.

1995 Public Information: Desire, Destruction, Document. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, January 18-April 30, 1995.

1994 From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington,

1993 Fragments de la Photo. Cahors, France illus.

1992 Stainback, Charles. Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer. Dusseldorf, Oct. 1967 - Oct. 1992, pg. 67, illus.

1992 Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, Plous/Colpitt, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA.

1991 Storr, Robert. Departures Photography 1923-1990. Independent Curators Council Devil on the Stairs; Looking Back at the Eighties. Illus.

1990 The Times, The Chronicle, & The Observer, Kent Fine Art, Douglas Blau Other Selected References

1988 Sandler, Irving. American Art of the 1960s. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Pp.138, 294, 349, 350.

1988 The Skowhegan Awards Catalogue, by Christopher Knight, Apr, p.7.

1987 Collection 1987. Lyon, France: Ville de Lyon, Musee Saint Pieree, Art Contemporain Lyon, 1987. Pp. 68—79.

1984Cameron, Dan. Art and Its Double. Barcelona, Spain: Centre Cultural de la Fundaci; Caixa de Pensions, 1986. p. 20.

1985 Phillpot, Clive. Some Contemporary Artists and Their Books. In Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook. Ed. by Joan Lyons. Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1985. Pp. 117—119.

1984 Green, Jonathan. American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984. Pp. 222—226.

1983 Gruber, Bettina and Maria Vedder. Kunst und Video: Internationale Entwicklung und Kunstler. Cologne: DuMont, 1983. pp. 79—81.

1982 Herzogenrath, Wulf. Videokunst In Deutschland 1963—1982. Cologne: Kolnischer Kunstverein, 1982. Pp. 53, 74.

1980 Skira Annuel Art Actuel Numero Special 1970-1980. Geneva: Skira, 1980. Pp. 104—105.

1977 Battock, Gregory. Why Art? New York: E. P. Dutton, 1977. Pp. 8, 13, 14.

1977 Crimp, Douglas. Pictures. New York: Artists Space, 1977. Pp. 8—10.

1976 Art Actuel Skira Annuel '76. Geneva: Skira, 1976. p. 174—A.

1976 Gottlieb, Carla. Beyond Modern Art. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976. Pp. 364, 368—369.

1973 Kahmen, Volker. Art History of Photography. New York: Viking Press, 1973. Pp. 34, 209.

1973 de Wilde, Edy. De collectie van het Stedelijk Museum 1963-1973. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1973. p. 176.

1972 Lippard, Lucy, ed. Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1972. Pp. 58, 113, 243, 254.

1972 Price, Jonathan. Video-Visions: A Medium Discovers Itself. New York: The New American Library, Plume Books, 1972. Pp. 163—167.

1971 Meyer, Ursula. Conceptual Art. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971. Pp. 32—33.

1971 Tuchman, Maurice and Jane Livingston. A & T: A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1967—1971. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971. p. 53.

1970 Goldin, Amy. Words in Pictures. Narrative Art: Art News Annual XXVI. New York: Newsweek, Inc., 1970. Pp. 61—71.

1969 Gablik, Suzi, and John Russell. Pop Art Redefined. New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1969. p. 53.


Books and writings by John Baldessari


2019 JOHN BALDESSARI, TWO KIDS, ONE GROWN-UP, Sprüth Magers

2017 Learning to read with John Baldessari, Fondación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo

2015 John Baldessari. The Städel Paintings, Frankfurt, Städel Museum

2015 John Baldessari: Nose Peak', John Baldessari/onestarpress, Paris.

2010 Miracle Chips®, Little Steidl, Göttingen.

2010 Prase', Artist's book version of the Ringier Annual Report 2009, Zurich: JRPI Ringier.

2008 Baldessari, John / Broek, Koen van den: 'This an Example of That', bkSM (beeldende kunst Strombeek/Mechelen), Gemeenteplein.

2007 Again the Metaphor Problem and Other Engaged Critical Discourses about Art: A Conversation between John Baldessari, Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner, moderated by Beatrix Ruf, New York / Vienna: Springer Wien New York.

2007 Baldessari, John / Cesarco, Alejandro: 'Retrospective', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.

2006 Prima Facie: Marilyn's Dress, a Poem (In Four Parts), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.

2004 Yours in Food. John Baldessari: With Meditations on Eating by Paul Auster, John Baldessari, David Byrne, Dave Eggers, David Gilbert, Tim Griffin, Andy Grundberg, John Haskell, Machael More, Glenn O'Brien, Francine Prose, Peter Schjeldahl, Lynne Tillman, New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

2001 Brown and Green and Other Parables', i8 and Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik.

1999 The Metaphor Problem Again', collaboration with Laurence Weiner, Mai 36 Galerie / Ink-Tree Editions, Küsnacht / Zurich.

1998 Zorro (Two Gestures and one Mark)', Cologne: Oktagon Verlag.

1989 Lamb = Cordero', Images by John Baldessari, story by Meg Cranston, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia.

1988 The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy', Images by John Baldessari, text by Laurence Sterne, San Francisco: Arion Press.

1988 The Telephone Book (With Pearls)', Imschoot, Gent.

1981 Close-Cropped Tales, CEPA Gallery / Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.

1977 Fable – A Sentence of Thirteen Parts (With Twelve Alternate Verbs) Ending in FABLE', Hamburg: Anatol AV und Filmproduktion.

1976 Brutus Killed Caesar', Emily H. Davis Art Gallery, University of Akron / Sonnabend Gallery / Ohio State University, Akron / New York / Columbus.

1975 Throwing a Ball Once to Get Three Melodies and Fifteen Chords, John Baldessari: 1973, Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, and Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine.

1975 Four Events and Reactions, Centro Di / Sonnabend Gallery, Florence / Paris.

1973 Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)', Giampaolo Prearo Editore S.r.L. / Galleria Toselli, Milan.

1972 Ingres and Other Parables, London: Studio International Publications.

1972 Choosing: Green Beans, Edizioni Toselli, Milan