It should be said that Baldessari’s penchant for depicting noses in his work extends as far back as 1965 with the conception of « God Nose », one of the artist’s very few pre-1965 paintings to have survived.

Here, with his onestar press edition, Baldessari conceives a book about a nose, with a nose, wherein the artist’s famed subject appears and disappears upon a series of pages, in one fluid sweep.

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