Choosing: Green Beans
Baldessari, John
Milan. Edizioni Toselli. 1972
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A primary mission for the Conceptual artists of the late 1960s and early 1970s was to debunk the mystification that had attended modernism. Many Conceptualists sought to purge their art of the romantic accretions, such as notions of individuality and genius, that underpinned the establishment and the art market. Much early Conceptualism, therefore, is deliberately literal and anonymous. Art is no longer held to be transcendent or poetic, but factual and informative.
Baldessari's mode of Conceptualism, in this artist book, takes the Minimalist ideal to its pinnacle. Each image is of a line of individual green beans, dispassionately recorded for inspection and comparison. The book does not say much about green beans per se, but rather the whole process of photography, and its ability to archively record the world.
Limited to 1500 copies.
[Parr & Badger, The Photobook II, pp. 146-147].
Baldessari's mode of Conceptualism, in this artist book, takes the Minimalist ideal to its pinnacle. Each image is of a line of individual green beans, dispassionately recorded for inspection and comparison. The book does not say much about green beans per se, but rather the whole process of photography, and its ability to archively record the world.
Limited to 1500 copies.
[Parr & Badger, The Photobook II, pp. 146-147].
pp. 28. Small folio. 9 colour photographic reproductions. Original white laminated card covers printed in black. A fine copy.
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