Poster of Teaching a Plant the Alphabet

Teaching a Plant the Alphabet

Plot: “[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, involving ordinary objects and a seemingly banal task
Release Date: Saturday, January 1 1971
53 years ago
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Portrait of John BaldessariJohn Baldessari
John Baldessari was
40 in Teaching a Plant the Alphabet
as 'Director'
Wed, Jun 17 1931 –
Thu, Jan 02 2020