John Baldessari. Pure Beauty

With more than 240 illustrations and eleven insightful essays, this is the most comprehensive volume to date on this legendary artist from California. From the early text-and-image paintings to the more recent photocollages and installations, Baldessari has continued to make art that - often playfully, and always astutely and incisively - addresses the social impact of mass culture.

Texts by Marie de Brugerolle, Bice Curiger, Douglas Eklund, Russell Ferguson, Rainer Fuchs, Tim Griffin, Leslie Jones, Friedrich Meschede, Jessica Morgan, David Salle, John C. Welchman

Designed by Lorraine Wild, with Victor Hu, Victoria Lam and Jennifer Rider; Green Dragon Office, Los Angeles
MACBA, Barcelona, 2010 (Catalan, Spanish)
Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Prestel Verlag, Munic, Berlin, London, New York, 2009 (English)

English version (hardcover)