Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, March 10 - June 30, 1996. Essays by Hugh M. Davies, Andrea Hales, David Antin, Jan Avgikos, Bice Curiger, Dave Hickey, Anne Rorimer, and Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Includes interview between the artist, Hugh M. Davies and Andrea Hales, exhibition checklist, selected biography and bibliography. "Baldessari left National City, the city where he grew up, at the end of the 1960s moving to Los Angeles to find his fame as one of the pillars of conceptual art. It's fairly safe to say he didn't spend much time looking back, until this focused exhibition opened. Catalogue documents an extremely rich vein of his work produced between 1966 and 1969. Includes his "photo-emulsion" works, text on canvas works, commissioned paintings, the Cremation Piece, and some new photo works that revisit sites originally explored in the 1960s." -- publisher's statement.