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]
Fall 1979 issue of the arts magazine Lightworks. Issue focuses on Fluxus art, and features contributions by Eric Smith, Opal L. Nations, Judith Fitzgerald, Sun Ra, Charles White, Keith Rahmmings, Maury Englander, Dick Higgins, Peter Frank, George Brecht, Hermann Braun, Wolfgang Feelisch, Geoff Hendricks, Alison Knowles, Robert Watts, Wolf Vostell, Ray Johnson, a. ... [details]
Reference catalogue of the collection at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Text by John B. Ravenal. Artists include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ansel Adams, Ivan Albright, Robert Arneson, Richard Artschwager, Jennifer Bartlett, Lee Bontecou, Iona Rozeal Brown, Deborah Butterfield, John Cage, Alexander Calder, Patrick Caulfield, Vija Celmins, John Chamberlain, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Willie Cole, Salvador Dali, Allan D'Arcangelo, Willem de Kooning, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, William Eggleston, Inka Essenhigh, Richard Estes, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Helen Frankenthaler, Gilbert & George, Gregory Gillespie, Adolph Gottlieb, Emmett Gowin, Nancy Grossman, Philip Guston, Ann Hamilton, Duane Hanson, Julie Heffernan, Bryan Hunt, Jörg Immendorff, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Donald Judd, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Elizabeth King, Franz Kline, Nicholas Krushenick, Norman Lewis, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Winston O. ... [details]
Co-published by D. Melmoth and Steven Heller. Essays "The Asylum," by Brad Holland; "Our Man in the Big Apple," by D. Melmoth; "Photograph," by Mario Jorrin; "Self-Gratification of Mailer & Breslin," by Ray Schultz; "Grass, Hedonism and the Doctors Plot," by Erich Goode; "Bust of the Week (The Great Sex Paper Bust)," by Peter Johnson & Ray Schultz; "All 76" of Jimi Hendrix," by Robert Somma; "The Nuns [sic] Story (a radical's confession)," by Mario Jorrin; "King Mother Fucker (Fiction)," by Gail Hayden; "The Last Estate," by Gregory Battcock; "NYRS at the Matachine's Banquet," photographs by Martin Beckerman; "Forever Ecstacy [sic] (a story)," by Tor Kung; "Advice to Hustlers," by Pat Conway; "Calendar of Erotic Events. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Wilcock. Cover photo by Jean Pierre Laffaut for a painting by France Raysse. Essays "Don't Go to Pieces on Sunday"; "Unpublished Interviews," by Israel G. Young; "Niggers from Outer Space (Excerpts from the Novel)," by Ted Joans; "Pigs & Presidents : 3 'Nothing Wrong with American That a Good Erection Wont [sic] Cure,' " by David Mairowitz; photograph by Shunk-Kendler; "Scarecrows Vogelscheuchen," by Hannes Jahn; "Rome : Bradley Martin Reporting," by Bradley Martin; poetry by Victor Coleman, Ronald Gross, Robert Scott Mashkin, and Joey Sacks; "The All Purpose Pick-up Line," by Steve Kraus; "Making It with Archie the Artist," by Murphy; "Safe," by Walter K. ... [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 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, Summer 1997. Traveled to the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Fall 1997; the Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy, Spring 1998; and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Fall 1998. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, September 12 - November 14, 1982. Exhibition traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, January 13 - February 27, 1983; the Frederick S. ... [details]
A catalogue of flyers from the 1960s to the 1980s by 6 Decades Books presented as an After Ruscha style artist's book. Flyers by Richard Aldcroft, Buddy Esquire, Bodily Funktions, Piero Heliczer, Flaming Creatures, Richard Hamilton, Jess, Ray Johnson, Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, La Monte Young and others. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1993. Designers include Eric G. Weiner, David Burry, Raymond Girard, Miles Keller, Helen Kerr, Alex Feldman, Karl Humphries, Peter Busby, Jeff Goodman, Bob Hambly, Michael Santella, Martin de Blois, Todd Wood, Tom Deacon, Karim Rashid, Ed Person, Scot Laughton, Robert Krug, Jeff Jackson, Patty Johnson, Clelia Iori, Matthew Wilson, Thomas Loh, Mark Wilson, Addison Lanier, Ian Panabaker, George Farmer, Janine Lindgren and Mitchell Fenton. ... [details]