Collection of essays that examine the Modernist practices of California artists working in the first half of the Twentieth century. Contributers include: Paul J. Karlstrom, Richard Cándida Smith, Susan Landauer, Gray Brechin, Peter Selz, Margarita Nieto, David Gebhard, Bram Dijkstra, Susan M. ... [details]
Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 14, 1989 - February 4, 1990. Traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, UCLA, California, April 24 - August 18, 1996. With essays by Amelia Jones, Laura Meyer, Nancy Ring, Anette Kubitza, Susan Kandel, and Laura Cottingham. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, January 21 - April 26, 2004; The Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, July 2 - August 14, 2004; The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, September 10 - December 12, 2004; The Blaffer Gallery at the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas, January 15 - March 13, 2005; ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), Karlsruhe, Germany, April 30 - July 24, 2005; and the Yale University School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, August 29 - November 4, 2005. ... [details]
"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract impressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. ... [details]
"In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate, contentious--Fluxus artists worked with minimal and prosaic materials now familiar in post-World War II art. ... [details]
Originally published in three issues of Artforum in 1976, this volume brings these critical essay together in a single housing that includes an introduction by Thomas McEvilley and a afterword by O'Doherty. ... [details]
Reprint of 1983 Routledge & Kegan Paul edition. Edited by Sabine Breitwieser. Foreword by Lucy Lippard. Texts by the artist, Andrea Fraser, Laura Mulvey, Paul Smith & others. Bibliography, biography. Illus. [details]
Critical theory by Andrew Graham-Dixon. "... Graham-Dixon argues decisively against the preconception that the British are not a visual people. Starting with a revelatory account of the almost unknown masterpieces of the Catholic Middle Ages, [Dixon] celebrates the beauty and the brilliance of Britain's artistic heritage - from Thomas Gainsborough to Damien Hirst, William Hogarth to David Hockney, John Constable to Henry Moore. ... [details]
