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A portrait of the artist as an inspiring teacher: this publication focuses on Baldessari’s practice at the intersection between pedagogy\u00a0and art. Visually organized in alphabetical order, Learning To Read<\/em> features essays, artworks, a chronology, and personal insights on Baldessari’s teaching and influence.<\/div>\n
As lucid and non-authoritarian as John Baldessari’s art, this new monograph on the \u201cfather of Conceptual art\u201d 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.
\nVisually organized in alphabetical order, \u201cLearning to Read with John Baldessari\u201d\u2014which accompanies a retrospective of his work at Museo Jumex, Mexico City, from November 11, 2017, to April 8, 2018\u2014gathers together 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.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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