ANJZA Throwback | John Baldessari’s Punishment Piece

John Baldessari’s Punishment Piece

Tara McDowell

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2019, Open Issue, vol.19, no.1, 53-69

Despite being one of the most canonical artworks of this period, Baldessari’s I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art has never received any extensive art historical attention, let alone any good old-fashioned formal analysis.iv In what follows, I aim to do just that, restoring the context and material processes of this work and looking closely at its afterlives in order to make it vivid, but also to allow its many permutations and reversals to emerge as attributes of an artwork that is deeply dialectical in its purchase on the world. read more 

 

Image: John Baldessari, ‘Wall Painting’, 1972/2017, installation view, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Australia. Photo credit: Melissa Vallence

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