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John Baldessari (born 1931) is a luminary in the realms of Conceptual art and book art, and one of the most important figures in con temporary art of the last 40 years. Since his sensational Cremation Project of 1970, for which he incinerated every single painting he had made between 1953 and 1966, Baldessari's work has mined the tensions between language, image and sign-making. Baldessari unpi cks the very mechanisms of media representation, and even the idea of artistic subject matter itself, using painting, photography, f ilm/video...[Read more]