State of Mind
State of Mind

Author: Constance Lewallen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-10-31

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0520270614

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"There is not a trace of the provincial nor the apologetic in the tone of the State of Mind texts. Rather there is a justified claim for the sophisticated originality of this Californian art—sophisticated because the authors have convincingly argued that the artists, for the most part, had many conscious connections and familiarity with art from the rest of the country and Europe, yet were driven by a desire to be independent and different." —Moira Roth, editor and contributor, The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980 "State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 is an essential overview of the rich and complex moment when California assumed its role as a leading center for the making and exhibition of the kind of adventurous and progressive art that immediately fascinated the world, and over the years has come to define a generation and a region. An unmatched source of hard-to-find primary images combined with thought-provoking critical essays, this book can easily function as a standard text on this subject.” —David Ross, former director of SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and currently Chairman of the MFA program in Art Practice at The School of Visual Arts

Under the Big Black Sun
Under the Big Black Sun

Author: Lisa Gabrielle Mark

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791351391

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Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 2011-Feb. 13, 2012.

Light
Light

Author: Bruce Munro

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781937720506

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Internationally-acclaimed artist Bruce Munro premiers his largest artwork to date-an enormous multi-acre walk-through installation-at Sensorio in Paso Robles, California. Bruce Munro: Field of Light at Sensorio uses an array of over 58,000 stemmed spheres lit by fiber-optics, gently illuminating the landscape in subtle blooms of morphing color that describe the undulating landscape.Powered by solar, the stunning exhibition will captivate visitors, inviting them to engage with the landscape and environment through an ethereal light-based and sculptural experience.

Made in California
Made in California

Author: Stephanie Barron

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0520337654

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This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, Made in California challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout--both in image and in text--and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.

Now Dig This!
Now Dig This!

Author: Kellie Jones

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13:

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This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth survey of the incredibly vital but often overlooked legacy of Los Angeles's African American artists, featuring many never-before-seen works.

Parapolitics
Parapolitics

Author: Anselm Franke

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2021-08-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 3956795083

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An examination of the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony, through the activities of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom. Parapolitics confronts the contemporary fate of intellectual autonomy and artistic freedom by revisiting the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony. It builds on a major exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2017–18) that took as its starting point the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF)—an organization covertly funded by the Central Intelligence Agency in order to steer the Left away from its remaining commitment to communism. Paying particular attention to CCF activities in the non-European world during a period of decolonization and the Civil Rights Movement, Parapolitics assembles archival documentation from five continents alongside a selection of historical artworks to explore the context in which artists negotiated the framing and meaning of their work. A rich reference book for future researchers and everybody interested in the legacy of modernism, the publication also presents more than thirty newly commissioned contributions by contemporary artists and scholars.

The Not-So-Still Life
The Not-So-Still Life

Author: Susan Landauer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-11-10

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780520239388

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"Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.

The Art of Tiki
The Art of Tiki

Author: Sven Kirsten

Publisher: Luz de Jesus

Published: 2022-10-22

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781732669741

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The Art of Tiki is a passionate study of the Tiki idol as an art form. For the first time, contemporary Tiki art is united and presented equally with what inspired it, original mid-century Polynesian pop. Author Sven Kirsten combines his first-hand experiences in exploring the birth of Tiki style with his intimate knowledge of the Tiki Revival, painting a vivid, visually arresting portrait of a unique, always new art genre.

Through Vincent's Eyes
Through Vincent's Eyes

Author: Eik Kahng

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300251371

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A revelatory resituation of Van Gogh's familiar works in the company of the surprising variety of nineteenth-century art and literature he most revered Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) idiosyncratic style grew out of a deep admiration for and connection to the nineteenth-century art world. This fresh look at Van Gogh's influences explores the artist's relationship to the Barbizon School painters Jean-François Millet and Georges Michel--Van Gogh's self-proclaimed mentors--as well as to Realists like Jean-François Raffaëlli and Léon Lhermitte. New scholarship offers insights into Van Gogh's emulation of Adolphe Monticelli, his absorption of the Hague School through Anton Mauve and Jozef Israëls, and his keen interest in the work of the Impressionists. This copiously illustrated volume also discusses Van Gogh's allegiance to the colorism of Eugène Delacroix, as well as his alliance with the Realist literature of Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Although Van Gogh has often been portrayed as an insular and tortured savant, Through Vincent's Eyes provides a fascinating deep dive into the artist's sources of inspiration that reveals his expansive interest in the artistic culture of his time. Published in association with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Published in association with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Columbus Museum of Art (November 12, 2021-February 6, 2022) Santa Barbara Museum of Art (February 27-May 22, 2022)