{"id":1780,"date":"2010-06-21T00:14:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T07:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/06\/joe_deal_-_the_blight_of_light\/"},"modified":"2010-06-21T00:14:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T07:14:57","slug":"joe_deal_-_the_blight_of_light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/06\/joe_deal_-_the_blight_of_light.html","title":{"rendered":"Joe Deal &#8211; the blight of California light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Deal didn&#8217;t live in California but returned to it throughout his career to articulate its self-devouring growth, subdivision on subdivision. Deal died on Friday of cancer. He was 62.&nbsp; St. Louis Beacon obit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlbeacon.org\/content\/view\/103212\/482\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teacher: What&#8217;s 2 plus 2, Michael?<br \/>Micheal: 4.<br \/>Teacher: That&#8217;s good, Michael.<br \/>Michael: It&#8217;s not good, it&#8217;s perfect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe Deal&#8217;s photos are perfect. They are what it is, images of an Etch-A-Sketch state that keeps erasing and repeating itself, without <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billowens.com\/\">Bill Owens<\/a>&#8216; hapless charm or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edruscha.com\/site\/biography.cfm\">Ed Ruscha<\/a>&#8216;s consolation of the cool. <br \/><i><br \/>Deal, Watering, Phillips Ranch, California, 1983<br \/>\nfrom Subdividing the Inland Basin<br \/>\n14 x 17 inches<br \/>\nvintage silver print (Image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertmann.com\/exhibitions\/2003\/deal\/image_31.html\">via<\/a>)<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"joedealobit.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/joedealobit.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"277\" width=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Deal didn&#8217;t live in California but returned to it throughout his career to articulate its self-devouring growth, subdivision on subdivision. Deal died on Friday of cancer. He was 62.&nbsp; St. Louis Beacon obit here. Teacher: What&#8217;s 2 plus 2, Michael?Micheal: 4.Teacher: That&#8217;s good, Michael.Michael: It&#8217;s not good, it&#8217;s perfect. Joe Deal&#8217;s photos are perfect. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}