John Baldessari: National City

by Hugh Davies, Anne Rorimer, John Baldessari (Artist)

Artwork by John Baldessari. Contributions by Andrea Hales. Text by Hugh Davies, Anne Rorimer.

112 pages, Paperback

First published February 2, 1997

About the author

Hugh Davies was born in Pembrokeshire but now lives in Derbyshire. He's had a career specialising mainly in computing. He was the Winner of British Computer Society Innovation award for his invention of the Passfaces authentication system. He is now retired and spends his days working as guide at Bletchley Park where he started 12 years ago. In his spare time, he gives talks nationwide to a wide range of audiences speaking on WW2 Intelligence topics especially the human factor.

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good quotes from this:


I can never be convinced that art did anybody any good

text + photo imagery: lowest common denominator in art, as we're all familiar with photos and words

brush lettering - i don't think that's a profession, really, for a left-handed person

ashes of burned art that was never shown, though the ashes were collected

jazz politician