State of the Arts

State of the Arts
Author: Barbara Isenberg
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781566636315

Celebrates California artists of all sorts and examines their relationship to their environment. Features 54 interviews with visual and performing artists, musicians, screenwriters, novelists, actors, and others. From Dave Brubeck's childhood on a Concord, CA, ranch to Clint Eastwood on his first memories of Carmel, to Luis Valdez's farmworkers' theater and Maxine Hong Kingston's writing of Chinese myth, these wide-ranging and revealing interviews shed light on the creative life in the land of plenty.--From publisher description.

California Video

California Video
Author: Glenn Phillips
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780892369225

Whether designing complex video sculptures & installations, experimenting with electronic psychedelia, creating conceptual & performance art, or producing vanguard works that promote social issues, artists from all over California have utilized video technology to express revolutionary ideas.

California Landscapes

California Landscapes
Author: John Yau
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0847864006

A must-have for anyone interested in these two beloved West Coast artists, best known for their geometric abstractions of the California landscape. Featuring the pairings of more than 50 paintings, this book shows the connection of these two artists like never before. Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud were close friends; they shared the inspiration of California and experimented with perspective to capture their surroundings. The book includes important examples from Diebenkorn’s Berkeley series in addition to several works from the artist’s Ocean Park series. Inspired by the environs of the Ocean Park neighborhood in Santa Monica, where he lived at this time, these works from the 1960s are characterized by geometric abstractions of subtle line and suffused with Californian luminosity. Wayne Thiebaud began producing landscapes in the 1960s, experimenting with perspective to capture his Californian surroundings. Included are his works from the early 1970s through 2017, including his dramatic depictions of San Francisco, flattened aerial views of the Sacramento River Delta, and close-ups and cross-section views of mountains and beaches.

Made in California

Made in California
Author: Stephanie Barron
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520227654

"Made in California is divided into five twenty-year sections, each including a narrative essay discussing the history of that era and highlighting topics relevant to its visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Regarding Warhol

Regarding Warhol
Author: Mark Lawrence Rosenthal
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 1588394697

This sumptuous volume presents the first full-scale exploration of warhol's tremendous influence across the generations of artists that have succeeded him. Warhol brought to the art world a unique awareness of the relationship that art might have with popular consumer culture and tabloid news, with celebrity, and with sexuality. Each of these themes is explored through visual dialogues between warhol and some sixty artists, among them John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Elizabeth Peyton, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Luc Tuymans. These juxtapositions not only demonstrate warhol's overt influence but also suggest how artists have either worked in parallel modes or developed his model in dynamic new directions. Featuring commentary by many of the world's leading contemporary artists, as well as a major essay by the celebrated critic Mark Rosenthal and an extensive illustrated chronology, Regarding Warhol is an out-standing publication that will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in contemporary art.

Now Dig This!

Now Dig This!
Author: Kellie Jones
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth survey of the incredibly vital but often overlooked legacy of Los Angeles's African American artists, featuring many never-before-seen works.

Self Help Graphics at Fifty

Self Help Graphics at Fifty
Author: Tatiana Reinoza
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2023-04-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520390881

The definitive history of a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building. Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States. Officially launched in 1973 during the Chicano Movement, Self Help Graphics & Art continues to serve on the cultural front. The institution’s commitment to art, dignity for all, and empowerment of Chicanx and Latinx artists appears in every aspect of programming, including the Día de los Muertos festival; the Barrio Mobile Art Studio, which brings art education to underserved schools; and the printmaking program, which offers an accessible medium infused with activist aims. Looking at the multiple genealogies of art that intersect in East Los Angeles, Self Help Graphics at Fifty bears witness to the organization’s influential role in US and global art histories.

California Art

California Art
Author: Nancy Dustin Wall Moure
Publisher:
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: