Fable: A Sentence of Thirteen Parts (with Twelve Alternate Verbs) Ending in Fable
1977
Medium
artist’s book: photo-offset lithography on concertina fold-out in cross formation, folded paper cover
Measurements
9.8 × 14.0 × 1.8 cm (closed) 70.0 × 126.5 cm approx. (overall, opened)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Friends of the Gallery Library, 2017
© John Baldessari/JAB Art Enterprises LLC
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Subjects (general)
Concepts and Ideas Literary and Text
Subjects (specific)
accordion books artists' books (books) film (discipline) texts (documents) words (language-related concepts) words (layout features)
Movements
Conceptual
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