Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969 - Hardcover

Julie Joyce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899511139 ISBN 13: 9780899511139

Publisher: Ram Publications, 2012

Synopsis

Decades before today s major Los Angeles museums realized the potential of contemporary art, the pioneering institutions Pasadena Art Museum and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art under curator directors Thomas Leavitt and Walter Hopps championed talented local and internationally recognized painters. Part of the Getty Research Institute s Pacific Standard Time initiative, this crisp exhibition catalog reconstructs the partially forgotten history through photos and reproductions. Storied moments such as Kienholz s first solo show(1961), Duchamp s chess game with a naked Eve Babitz(1963) and Diebenkorn s first major exhibition(1963) reenter the annals of 20th century American art history.

About this title

About the Author:

Julie Joyce is Gallery Director of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at the California State University, Los Angeles.

Peter Plagens is a painter, art critic at "Newsweek", and contributing editor at "Artforum". He has taught art at the University of Southern California and California State University, Northridge, and he was Professor and Chairman of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of a novel, "Time for Robo" (1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Ram Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0899511139
• ISBN 13: 9780899511139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162