Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Trajectories

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Robbert Flick; M. J. Dear; David L. Ulin; Tim B. Wride

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Floral Sketches Address Book

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Japanese Prints 2005 Calendar: Los Angeles County Museum Of Art 2005

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Universe Publishing

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Floral Sketches: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Twenty Assorted Notecards and Envelopes

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles is a world capital in today's global age, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the largest, most comprehensive art museum in the western United States, plays a central role in the city's dynamic cultural life. LACMA is the youngest of the nation's leading encyclopedic art institutions, yet its collections have rapidly expanded to include more than 100,000 works of art, from prehistory to contemporary civilization, from every part of the world, and from all media, including painting and sculpture, prints and drawings, decorative arts, costume and textiles, and photography.
This useful guide features full-color reproductions of works from each of the museum's eleven departments, including its world-famous collections of Islamic art and South and Southeast Asian art. The texts are written by the museum's curators and are accompanied by an informative introduction to the collections' history. From the magnificently intricate Ardabil Carpet to David Hockney's vast and circuitous Mulholland Drive, from pre-Columbian Andean textiles to costumes from Hollywood's golden era, LACMA's collections reflect the tremendous diversity of the city that it serves. 192 illustrations, 184 in color.

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Da Van Gogh a Picasso: Capolavori Del Disegno Francese Del XIX E XX Secolo Dal Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Kevin Salatino; Marco Goldin

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Miracles & Mischief: Noh and Kyogen Theater in Japan

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Sharon Sadako Takeda; Hollis Goodall-Cristante; Monica Bethe

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Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Margaret C. Conrads; Winslow Homer; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; High Museum of Art

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Other editions: Softcover - 2002

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Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Irina Antonova; Houston Museum of Fine Arts; High Museum of Art; E. B. Georgievskaia; Elena Sharnova; Charlotte Nalle Eyerman

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Other editions: Softcover - 2002

Donald Blumberg

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Tim B. Wride; Donald Blumberg

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Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Will South; North Carolina Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Stanton Macdonald-Wright

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2001

Luca Giordano, 1634-1705

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Luca Giordano; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien; Museo e gallerie nazionali di Capodimonte; Castel Sant'Elmo (Naples, Italy)

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L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Carol S. Eliel; Tag Gronberg; Francoise Ducros

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Four Seasons Asia 2002 Calendar: Japanese Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Stephanie Barron; Thomas E. Crow; Lynn Zelevansky; Eli Broad Family Foundation

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The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Virginia Fields; Victor Zamudio-Taylor

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Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 Selections from the Smits Collection and Related Works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Jo Lauria; Gretchen Adkins

Drawn from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color & Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 accompanies a major touring exhibition on the history of ceramic art in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 color photographs, Color & Fire explores the roles of key artists and the major stylistic movements they developed during the decades of pioneering innovation.

Based on the premise that the history of studio ceramics can be regarded as a series of breakthroughs or milestones, Color & Fire highlights the moments when talented artists came together to produce work in clay that challenged traditions and promoted aesthetic freedom. In the early years of the twentieth century, pottery was primarily mass-produced in factories, where specialists in wheel throwing, glazing, and kiln firing worked under a system of divided labor. In the 1930s and 1940s, ceramists such as the renowned team of Gertrud and Otto Natzler began to perform all of these exacting functions-from mixing clay to firing kilns-in their own studios, creating one-of-a-kind pots, breathtaking in design and construction. Since that time, ceramic art has followed a metaphorical journey from the earth to the air, as concerns with utility, materials, and techniques have given way to abstract conceptual considerations.

In Los Angeles in the 1950s, Peter Voulkos and his students upset the traditional values of craft pottery and the Bauhaus- inspired "form follows function" doctrine by creating nonfunctional, oversized, off-kilter vessels with cracks and holes, along with massive Abstract Expressionist monuments. In the 1960s in northern California, Robert Arneson and his students shattered taboos against clay as a sculptural medium in the oversized, off-kilter vessels with cracks and holes, along with massive Abstract Expressionist monuments. In the 1960s in northern California, Robert Arneson and his students shattered taboos against clay as a sculptural medium in the hands of potters with their radical, irreverent, and satirical "Funk" pieces. Today, no longer confined to the decorative arts or other craft categories, ceramic artists around the world explore an unlimited range of influences, styles, and ideas, engaging in a graceful and inventive dialogue with centuries of ceramic tradition.

A celebration as well as a valuable art-historical survey, Color & Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 showcases the finest works form the unparalleled collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Accessible to the novice as well as to the enthusiast, the book includes essays by Grechen Adkins, Garth Clark, Jo Lauria, Rebecca Niederlander, Susan Peterson, and Peter Selz.

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Rodin in His Time: The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Mary L. Levkoff; Mary Levkoff

This showcase of the Cantor gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, includes not only the work of Rodin, but sculptures by his most significant forerunners, contemporaries, and followers. With an authoritative narrative text and detailed color photography, this book provides an ideal introduction into one of the world's greatest artists by placing his work in the historical context of his own time and offers an understanding of nineteenth-century sculpture as a whole.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000

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Robert Therrien

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Lynn Zelevansky; Norman Bryson; Thomas Frick

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Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Stephanie Barron; Richard Rodriguez; Howard N. Fox; Michael Dear; Ilene Susan Fort; Sheri Bernstein

This opulent and exciting book charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, it challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined.

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Eleanor Antin

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Howard N. Fox; Eleanor Antin; Lisa E. Bloom

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Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Ruth Butler; Auguste Rodin; Jane Mayo Roos; Rachael Blackburn; N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York; Portland Art Museum (Or.); Jeanine Parisier Plottel; Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

The extraordinary and prolific career of Victor Hugo was memorialized by the master sculptor Auguste Rodin in his commanding Monument to Victor Hugo, depicting Hugo's powerful figure seated in contemplation with his inspirational Meditation and his Tragic Muse on either side. The first cast of this majestic bronze sculpture resides permanently in Paris, but the second cast has now been made accessible outside France in a major exhibition touring the United States (Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and New York), including 20 additional sculptures by Rodin, as well as works on paper. This elegantly produced volume and the exhibition have been organized as part of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation's ongoing mission to reveal the work of Auguste Rodin to a broader public audience.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1999

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Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Theodore Stebbins; Karen E. Quinn; Edward Weston; Leslie Furth; Karen Quinn; Cleveland Museum of Art; Boston Museum of Fine Arts

This third and culminating volume in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' outstanding series on Edward Weston (1886-1958) examines Weston's role in the modernist movement. Comparative illustrations of work by Picasso, Brancusi, O'Keeffe, Pollock, and other artists are included to provide a deeper understanding of these influence's. Following an introduction by Theodore Stebbins, three sections of photographs with accompanying essays demonstrate the entire range of Weston's work: still lifes, work from the Mexican period, his landmark work with shells and peppers, small-format portraiture and fragmentary nudes, the classic 1930s series of nudes and dunes, and his late, abstract landscapes. This catalogue features many previously unpublished photographs from the renowned Lane Collection. Vintage prints -- all printed by Weston himself -- were used to create the exquisite tritone reproductions in this masterful book.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1999

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Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999 Catalogue Raisonne

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Siri Engberg; Clive Phillpot; Edward Ruscha; Walker Art Center; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum

This slip-cased, two volume publication presents a comprehensive look at the print projects, editions, and artist books of Edward Ruscha. Sometimes grouped with Pop and Conceptual artists, Ruscha is more aptly placed in a category that bridges both approaches, and his influence on contemporary painting is matched only by his importance as a graphic artist. Ruscha began making editions in 1962, with the publication of an artist's book, Twenty Six Gasoline Stations. It was one of many projects to follow -- each a wordless compendium of banal photographs depicting commonplace items or locations that commented on the sterility and anonymity of the Los Angeles landscape. In the 1970s, Ruscha's unique blend of language, image, and the idea prefigured much of the "word-art" of the 80s, and suggested a linguistic wellspring that Ruscha would continue to tap in his work. This monumental book reveals the depths of Ruscha's printmaking process, and offers important insight into the unique aesthetics of a major artist. Volume One includes some 400 images, a complete catalogue raisonne of Ruscha's editioned print work. Volume Two includes illustrated essays by Siri Engberg and Clive Phillpot, a key to the raisonne the complete raisonne text entries, a bibliography, and exhibition history, as well as Ruscha's "The Information Man."

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Martin Johnson Heade

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Theodore E. Stebbins; Jim Wright; Karen E. Quinn; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Janet L. Comey; Martin Johnson Heade

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) had the longest career and produced perhaps the most varied body of work of any American painter of the nineteenth century. His prolific oeuvre ranges from American coastal marshes and marine landscapes to the lush tropical splendor of South and Central American landscapes, birds, and flowers. An independent thinker as well as a world traveler, Heade developed a singular approach to landscape and still life painting, adapting some elements of the style and practice of the Hudson River School to his own more Darwinian vision. While Heade had only a minor reputation in his own day and was completely forgotten for many decades after his death, he is now rightly regarded as an artist of great significance and originality, and as the only American whose landscapes and still lifes are equally important. In this elegantly illustrated book, the catalogue for the second major retrospective of Heade's work in thirty years, Theodore Stebbins and his collaborators focus on the major themes of Heade's work: seascapes, salt marshes, landscapes, tropical landscapes, the "gems" of Brazil (as hummingbirds are known), passion flowers, orchids, and his late work in Florida. There are also chapters on Heade's critics and the development of Heade's painting technique.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1999