Close-Cropped Tales
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 22.5 x 17.8 cm.
  • [82] pp.
  • edition size 3000
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Close-Cropped Tales

John Baldessari

Close-Cropped Tales

description

Classic artist's book by a master of the medium. Published in conjunction with dual exhibitions held at CEPA Gallery, April 3 - May 17, 1981, and Albright-Knox Gallery, April 4 - May 17, 1981. Not an exhibition catalogue. No texts. Strictly an artists' book comprised of cropped found photographed, composed to tell tales based on number of facets. I.E. three cropped sides; four cropped sides; five cropped sides; through to eight cropped sides each broken into chapters aka "tales."

references

No. AB1981.1 in "John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Six: 2011 – 2019" by Patrick Pardo, Robert Dean, Michael Auping, Philipp Kaiser, David Platzker. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2020, pp. 487.
Buffalo, NY: CEPA Gallery,
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$300.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Light rubbing and yellowing of cover edges and minimal curling of recto at spine. Contents clean and unmarked. Includes slipped in two page staple-bound exhibition checklist from "John Baldessari: New Work," an installation at CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, April 3 - May 16, 1981.
[Object # 36706]