It should be said that Baldessari’s penchant for depicting noses in his work extends as far back as 1965 with the conception of "God Nose", one of the artist’s very few pre-1965 paintings to have survived.

Here, with his onestar press edition, Baldessari conceives a book about a nose, with a nose, wherein the artist’s famed subject appears and disappears upon a series of pages, in one fluid sweep.

onestar press home page is by icecreambooks.com (Ben Denzer)