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The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales (1973)
"A spoof on current art attitudes [that] stretches the definition of what can be considered art. Because the late 1960s and early 1970s were periods of innovation, using the human body as art, making process equivalent to product... [etc.], Baldessari questions that very sense of originality and exploration by taking it to its (rather mundane) limits. By taping a stick at one end, then picking it up at the other, he is both questioning and spoofing what constitutes art."
-- Marcia Tucker, "John Baldessari: Pursuing the Unpredictable," John Baldessari (New York: New Museum, 1981)
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