John Baldessari

Offers a collection of recognizable facial images displayed on representations of potato chips.

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.

Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.

The extensive oeuvre John Baldessari (b. National City, Calif., 1931; lives and works in Santa Monica) has built over more than six decades defies conventional classification. In honor of his achievements, the City of Goslar has now awarded him the 2012 Kaiserring. Yet despite these major recognitions of his art, he has, in Europe, remained an "artist's artist".