Title & Author:

Pacific standard time : Los Angeles art, 1945-1980 / edited by Rebecca Peabody [and others].

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.

Description:

xxi, 330 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"This volume is published on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California, and accompanies the Getty Research Institute's exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from 1 October 2011 through 5 February 2012 and at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, from 15 March through 10 June 2012."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : shifting the standard : reappraising art in Los Angeles / Rebecca Peabody et al. -- 1. Floating structures : building the modern in postwar Los Angeles / Andrew Perchuk and Catherine Taft -- Case study houses / Lyra Kilston -- The Morder Institute of Art / Catherine Taft -- Collaborative couples / Catherine Taft -- The Post-Surrealists / Catherine Taft -- Zen in the studio / Catherine Taft -- The Anti-Square Merry-Go-round Show ; action and politics in Los Angeles / Serge Guilbaut -- 2. Papa's got a brand new bag : crafting an art scene / Lucy Bradnock and Rani Singh -- In the shadow of the spotlight / Rani Singh -- Name games / Lucy Bradnock -- Tap City Circus / Nancy Perloff -- Brittin by Baza / Ken D. Allen -- Instant theatre / Lucy Bradnock -- Clickin' with Clax / Rani Singh -- Roxy's / Alex Potts -- 3. For people who know the difference : defining the pop art sixties / Ken D. Allan, Lucy Bradnock, and Lisa Turvey -- Tooth / Annette Leddy -- Duchamp in Pasadena / Ken D. Allan -- Gemini G.E.L. / Lucy Bradnock -- The Artists' Protest Committee / Ken D. Allan -- The Golden State Mutual Art Collection / Lucy Bradnock -- Riko Mizuno / John Tain -- "Los Angeles Meant boys" : David Hockney, Bob Mizer, and the lure of physique photography / Richard Meyer -- 4. Duration piece : rethinking sculpture in Los Angeles / Donna Conwell and Glenn Phillips -- Jack Brogan : fabricator / Margaret Honda -- Protesting art and technology / Donna Conwell -- First National Symposium on Habitability / Donna Conwell -- Process painting / Glenn Phillips -- L.A. air / Donna Conwell -- Postmodernism between art and film : Jack Goldstein's Portrait of Père Tanguy / Michael Lobel -- 5. Here, here or there: on the whereabouts of art in the seventies / Jane McFadden -- Performing among us : ritual and witness / Irene Tsatsos -- Hermann Nitsch visits Los Angeles / Jane McFadden -- The Estrada Courts murals / Dianna Marisol Santillano -- Video at the Long Beach Museum of Art / Catherine Taft -- Close radio / Jane McFadden -- Making the scene : fashioning an artistic identity.

Summary:

"This comprehensive, richly illustrated book explores postwar American art from a new perspective: Southern California. Grounded in more than a decade of research, Pacific Standard Time analyzes L.A.'s art scene from the end of World War II to the beginning of the 1980s, demonstrating the pioneering role Southern California artists played in the twentieth century's most influential art movements."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781606060728 (hc)
1606060724 (hc)

Subject:

Painting, American California Los Angeles 20th century Themes, motives Exhibitions.
Sculpture, American California Los Angeles 20th century Themes, motives Exhibitions.
Peinture américaine Californie Los Angeles 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs Expositions.
Painting, American Themes, motives
Sculpture, American Themes, motives
Kunst
California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Los Angeles (Calif.) 2011.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Peabody, Rebecca.
J. Paul Getty Museum.
Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)

Los Angeles art, 1945-1980

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275832
Call No.: BIB 210212
Status: Available