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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Work Title (display):
This is Not to Be Looked At
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full view
Work Dates (display):
1966-1968
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2011-07-19
Work Creator (display):
John Baldessari (American, born 1931)
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American conceptual artist. After studying art at San Diego State College (194957), he began to develop his painting style, soon incorporating letters, words and photographs in his works. By 1966 he was using photographs and text, or simply text, on canvas as in Semi-close-up of Girl by Geranium … (19668; Basle, Kstmus.). From 1970 he worked in printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture and photography. His work is characterized by a consciousness of language evident in his use of puns, semantics based on the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss and by the incorporation of material drawn from popular culture. Both are apparent in Blasted Allegories (1978; New York, Sonnabend Gal.), a series combining polaroids of television images captioned and arranged to suggest an unusual syntax. Baldessari differed from other conceptual artists in his humour and commitment to the visual image. He dramatized the ordinary, although beneath the apparent simplicity of his words and images lie multiple connotations. (Elisabeth Roark. "Baldessari, John." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 30 Oct. 2009 .)
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Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Conceptual
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Conceptual
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Work Subject:
art critics
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art critics
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Work Subject:
art market
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art market
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Work Subject:
linguistics
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linguistics
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Work Subject:
images (object genres)
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images (object genres)
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Work Subject:
symbols
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symbols
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Work Subject:
art history
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art history
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Work Subject:
materialism (cultural attitude)
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materialism (cultural attitude)
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text (document genre)
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text (document genre)
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language (verbal communication)
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language (verbal communication)
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art
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art
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Work Subject:
photographs
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photographs
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photographs
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photographs
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
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Work Category (VRC classification):
photographs
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Work Material and Technique (display):
acrylic and photoemulsion on canvas
Work Measurements (display):
59 in (H) x 45 in (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Collection of Joel Wachs
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
owner
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Print.
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Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Print.
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Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-500-28715-6
Image Source Reproduction page number:
496
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
8.66
Image Rights (display):
© Margo Leavin Gallery
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© John Baldessari
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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