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Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980 by Rebecca Peabody Review "Consider [Pacific Standard Time] the missing general textbook on the rise, fall and transformation of post-World War II art produced in Los Angeles."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times ... (read more) Your price: $59.95 New - Hardcover 
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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) Your price: $32.50 New - Hardcover
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Bay Area Figurative Art by Caroline A Jones Publisher Comments "Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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) Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Artful Lives: Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, and the Bohemians of Los Angeles by Beth Gates Warren Synopsis This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 by Lisa Gabrielle Mark Publisher Comments This comprehensive survey examines the fertile and diverse output of California artists during an extraordinary period of American history. The years between Richard Nixon's resignation and Ronald Reagan's election as president were difficult ones for... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - 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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Picturing Chinatown by Anthony W Lee Publisher Comments Lee examines a little-known, but striking, body of visual images and image-makers associated with San Francisco's Chinatown in its first 100 years, from 1850 to 1950. In so doing, he integrates insights and literature from the disparate fields of art... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Large Art in Small Places: Discovering the California Mural Towns by Kevin Bruce Publisher Comments A Colorful Journey throughSmall Towns with Epic Art In the 1930s, film star (and part Cherokee) Will Rogers would come to Bishop, California, and buy the Native American children ice cream at the local pharmacy soda fountain, at a time when they... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints by Lindsay Charlwood 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) List Price $65.00 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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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 $45.50 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover
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Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A. by Ali Subotnick Synopsis Publication accompanying an exhibition held at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Mar. 8-May 31, 2009.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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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) List Price $49.95 Your price: $41.00 Used - Trade Paper
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