Throwing a Ball Once to Get Three Melodies and Fifteen Chords
Designer, concept: John Baldessari
Artist photographer: John Baldessari
Categories: Bookwork / Multiples, Photobooks
Reference no.:NL/Bal.J/73.00 Place/Shelf:4sthDL
| Book title: | Throwing a Ball Once to Get Three Melodies and Fifteen Chords |
| Published by: | Art Gallery, University of California |
| Year made: | 1973 |
| Place made: | USA |
| Original: | Yes |
| Dimensions: | 253 x 204 |
| Binder: | commercial binding |
| Physical description: | stapled booklet |
| Medium: | photographs |
| Further information: | |
| "A performance in book form (with photographs by an un-credited Dan Graham). Baldessari’s 1971 statement that he “will not make any more boring Art” is carried out in this exercise in reading photographs as music. Yellow, red, and blue staves are superimposed over sequential photographs of Baldessari winding up and throwing a ball, aligned with the titular ball and his hands and feet to create a simulacrum of musical notation." Type Punch Matrix | |
| Designer, concept: | John Baldessari () |
| Artist photographer: | John Baldessari () |
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