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Teaching a Plant the Alphabet

197218mMovie

“[A] rather perverse exercise in futility,” this tape documents Baldessari’s response to Joseph Beuys’s influential performance, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. Baldessari’s approach here is characteristically subtle and ironic,…

DirectorJohn Baldessari

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