[Signed] JOHN BALDESSARI ART MONOGRAPH by Coosje Van Bruggen - SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Both BALDESSARI and van BRUGGEN - First Printing Coosje van Brug

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JOHN BALDESSARI CONCEPTUAL ART MONOGRAPH / EXHIBITION CATALOG, by Coosje van Bruggen. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the half-title page by both JOHN BALDESSARI and COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN: ""To Terry and Maggi / Coosje van Bruggen / March 24, 1990"". ""TO TERRY AND MAGGI - / JOHN BALDESSARI"". Published by Rizzoli, New York, 1990. First edition, first printing, (published concurrently with a hardcover edition). ""Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles"". The show ran at the Museum of Contemporary Art from March 25 to June 17, 1990, then traveled to other major North American museums. (NOTE THAT THE INSCRIPTION BY COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN IS DATED MARCH 24, 1990 - THE DAY BEFORE THE EXHIBITION OPENED.) Softcover Monograph / Exhibition Catalog, 9x12 inches (23x30 cm), 256 pages. Illustrated throughout. VERY GOOD condition, some shelf rubs to the covers and a touch of wear to the cover corner tips, otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear, and unmarked, with a smooth spine. A solid, lovely copy. Rare First Printing SIGNED & INSCRIBED by BOTH Baldessari and van Bruggen. About COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN (from Wikipedia): ******COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN, b.1942 d.2009, was a Dutch born American sculptor, art historian, and critic. She collaborated extensively with her husband, CLAES OLDENBURG. Her first work with Oldenburg was the installation of the 41-foot Trowel I on the grounds of the Kröller Müller Museum. Together Oldenburg and van Bruggen produced three decades of monumental sculpture that van Bruggen called their Large-Scale Projects. Since the 1980s van Bruggen also worked as an independent critic and curator. She was the author of scholarly books and essays on the work of major contemporary artists including Gerhard Richter (1985), John Baldessari (1990), Bruce Nauman (1991), and Hanne Darboven (1991). She also wrote a monograph on architect Frank O. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. After a long battle with breast cancer, van Bruggen died at her residence in Los Angeles in 2009, aged 66.******