"Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn't figure out why they had to be in different baskets."
—John Baldessari
"One Ton Prop (House of Cards)" (1969)
"One Ton Prop (House of Cards)," 1969
Lead antimony, four plates, each 48 x 48 x 1 inch The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Gift of the Grinstein Family
Photo by Peter Moore
Courtesy the Artist
Lead antimony, four plates, each 48 x 48 x 1 inch The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Gift of the Grinstein Family
Photo by Peter Moore
Courtesy the Artist
"I think working in steel mills gave me a whole notion of how to use steel in a way that it hadn't been used before...I could use it in a way that it hadn't been used in sculpture up to that point. So I had a certain freedom to move right in to it, and use it in ways that the Industrial Revolution had used it."
- Richard Serra
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