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Label Text The photogravure is typical of Baldessari's approach to printmaking and his choice of imagery. As exemplified in this print, the artist often appropriates images from films or other forms of popular culture and then reconfigures them with graphic elements to form new meanings. Source: DMAC NEWS September October 2001
DimensionsFrame: 35 1/2 × 60 1/8 × 2 in. (90.2 × 152.7 × 5.1 cm)
Plate: 25 3/4 × 51 3/8 in. (65.4 × 130.5 cm)
Accession Number 2001.20
Classificationsprint
InscriptionsBALDESSARI 11.6.89 (l.r. on recto)
Editioned.45
Provenance(Signet Arts, St. Louis, MO); (Des Moines Art Center Print Club); Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2001]
Paradise
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines