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Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980 by Rebecca Peabody Review Winner of the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the 2012 Independent Publisher Book... (read more) Your price: $59.95 New - Hardcover 
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L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints by Connie (edt) Rogers Synopsis L.A. Object offers a historical overview of the Los Angeles assemblage movement of the 1960s and 70s. It focuses on works by primarily African-American artists often omitted from mainstream gallery and museum historical exhibitions who were working... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art by Norman Hathaway Publisher Comments Overspray is the conclusive account of the rise of airbrush art, and of the equally bright and glossy Los Angeles culture alongside which it came to prominence in the 1970s. Inspired by surf graphics, psychadelia and the slick shine of Hollywood, a... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Hardcover
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State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 by Constance M Lewallen Publisher Comments State of Mind, the lavishly illustrated companion book to the exhibition of the same name, investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art--in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. The... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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How Many Billboards?: Art in Stead by Peter Noever Publisher Comments In an urban zone crisscrossed by multilane freeways and gridded with broad boulevards, the roadside billboards of Los Angeles may well be the city's most visible platform for art. How Many Billboards? documents a 2010 project in which billboards in Los... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $26.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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At Work: The Art of California Labor by Mark Dean Johnson Publisher Comments A Powerful examination of labor history in California. Includes full-color and b&w images by Tina Modotti, Richard Correll, Henrietta Shore, Diego Rivera and others.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bay Area Figurative Art by Caroline A Jones Publisher Comments During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ferus by Gagosian Gallery Publisher Comments Under the seminal direction of Irving Blum, Ferus Gallery quickly became one of the leading galleries on the West Coast, showing important and groundbreaking worksincluding Andy Warhols Campbells Soup Cans, Roy Lichtensteins Drowning Girl, and Ed Ruschas... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $37.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Catalog L.A.: Birth of an Art Capital 1955-1985 by Catherine Grenier Publisher Comments In the latter half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles took off as an international art capital. "Catalog L.A." presents a comprehensive timeline of the burgeoning art scene that reflected the city's m lange of pop culture, celebrity, and political... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Eye by Mark Coetzee Publisher Comments The inspiration for this book began at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art with Paul Schimmel's seminal 1992 exhibition Helter Skelter, which introduced to the world the wide-ranging, dissident influence of Los Angeles art. Upon seeing that show... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Botanica Los Angeles by Patrick Arthur Polk Book News Annotation Associated with an exhibition of the same name at the UCLA Fowler Museum, this book examines the Latino botanica, stores that sell charms, herbs, potions and ritual items, and cater to all kinds of physical, spiritual and religious needs. Polk (world... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s by Hunter Drohojowska Philp Publisher Comments The extraordinary story of the artists who propelled themselves to international fame in 1960s Los Angeles Los Angeles, 1960: There was no modern art museum and there were few galleries, which is exactly what a number of daring young artists liked about... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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California Light: A Century of Landscapes: Paintings of the California Art Club by Jean Stern Publisher Comments A first-of-its-kind celebration of the California Art Club, a society whose members have for one hundred years captured Californias staggeringly beautiful landscapes in resplendent plein air paintings. At the dawn of the twentieth century, California... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century (Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America) by Richa Candida Smith Publisher Comments In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts Towers. Rodia created a work that was original... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond by Peter Selz Publisher Comments ""The Art of Engagement" represents a singular contribution to debates about the politics of art in California and far beyond."--Derrick R. Cartwright, author of "Benjamin West: Allegory and Allegiance" and co-author of "Luis Gispert/Loud Image," and "An... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface by Robin Lee Clark Publisher Comments During the 1960s and 1970s, a loosely affiliated group of Los Angeles artists--including Larry Bell, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler--more intrigued by questions of perception than by the crafting of discrete objects, embraced... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Eden's Edge: Fifteen L.A. Artists by Gary Garrels Publisher Comments Artwork by Mark Bradford, Liz Craft. Contributions by Gary Garrels.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $22.50 Used - Hardcover
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It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 by Rebecca Mcgrew Publisher Comments From 1969 to 1973, a series of radical art projects took place at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County at the Pomona College Museum of Art, in Claremont, California. Here, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator in Light and Space art and former... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Trade Paper
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Epicenter San Francisco Bay Area Art Now by Mark Johnstone Publisher Comments A hotbed of seismic activity, the San Francisco Bay Area is also an epicenter of vital new work by an art community always pushing the bounds of cultural innovation. Epicenter showcases the work of nearly fifty prominent and rising-star artists who have... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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2010 California Biennial: Orange County Museum of Art by Sarah C. Bancroft Synopsis Created for the Orange County Museum of Art's renowned California Biennial, this exhibition catalogue features forty-five contemporary California-based artists and collectives in all their rich diversity.... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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