Survey of the work of L.A. based artists before 1980. Edited by Lyn Kienholz with contributing editors Elizabeta Betinski and Corinne Nelson. Includes appendix. "'L.A. Rising SoCal Artists Before 1980' is the first comprehensive pictorial showcase of the diverse universe of artists working in the Los Angeles area during the formative period of Los Angeles' art history. ... [details]
"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. ... [details]
Large-scale examination of the conceptual art network in it's years of inception, 1967, though to the time at which it had become highly formalized, 1977. An exacting examination by Sophie Richard, edited by Lynda Morris after Richard's unfortunate death. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 12 - December 8, 2007. Essay by Joseph del Pesco. Artists include BGL, Conrad Bakker, Beth Campbell, Germaine Koh, Valerie Hegarty, Isola and Norzi, Chadwick Rantanen, Derek Sullivan and Anne Walsh. ... [details]
A Taschen "Basic Art Series" book on conceptual art written by Daniel Marzona and edited by Uta Grosenicl. Featuring overviews of the work of Marcel Duchamp, Vito Acconci, Art & Language, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Louise Lawler, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Roman Opalka, Adrian Piper, Charlotte Posenenske, Edward Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner, and Ian Wilson. [details]
"The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, America's oldest museum and school of fine arts, was founded in 1805. Today, the Academy boasts one of the nation's finest collections of American art and a roster of alumni representing the greatest artists this country has produced. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 14.04 - August 2, 2004. Essays by Diedrich Diederichsen, Jonathan Flatley, Timothy Martin, James Meyer and Anne Rorimer. Exhibition curator Ann Goldstein contributes an introduction. ... [details]
![Seis Años : La Desmaterialización del Objeto Artístico de 1966 a 1972 [ Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ]](/objects/images/s5967.jpg "Seis Años : La Desmaterialización del Objeto Artístico de 1966 a 1972 [ Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ]")
Spanish language edition of an essential source book, "Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972," compiling the documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 14-June 1, 1999. Exhibition curated by, edited by, and with an essay by Kynaston McShine. Texts by artists and Lilian Tone, Birgit Pelzer, Brian Wallis, Susan Stewart, Magdalena Dabrowski, Ecke Bonk, Jodi Hauptman, Kristen Erickson, Coosje van Bruggen, James Trainor, Thomas McEvilley, Sally Yard, Thomas Kellein, James Roberts, Kitty Scott, Kate Linker, Dave Hickey. ... [details]
Reference catalogue of the American art collection at Smith College. Contributions by Linda Muehlig, Cynda L. Benson, Deborah Chotner, Kristen Erickson, Elizabeth C. Evans-Iliesiu, Betsy B. Jones, Patricia Junker, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Linda Merrill and Daniel J. ... [details]
