Made in L.A. 2014

Connie Butler, Michael Ned Holte,

ISBN 10: 379135387X / ISBN 13: 9783791353876

Published by Prestel Publishing August 2014, 2014

About this Item

This wide-ranging and generously illustrated book focuses on new and cutting-edge artwork created in Southern California. Celebrating the Hammer Museum's biennial, this volume brings together the work of thirty-five emerging and under-recognized artists from Los Angeles. It features new installations, videos, films, sculptures, performances, and paintings, much of it commissioned especially for the biennial, and offers a snapshot of the L.A. scene. Each artist is featured in multiple pages, along with six fold-out inserts specifically designed for the book by some of the artists featured in the exhibition. Essays by the exhibition's curators and many of its artists round out this volume that showcases one of America's most fertile and exciting artistic environments. Celebrating the Hammer Museum's biennial, this volume brings together the work of thirty-five emerging and under-recognized artists from Los Angeles. It features new installations, videos, films, sculptures, performances, and paintings, much of it commissioned especially for the biennial, and offers a snapshot of the L.A. scene. Each artist is featured in multiple pages, along with six fold-out inserts specifically designed for the book by some of the artists featured in the exhibition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Made in L.A. 2014
• Publisher: Prestel Publishing August 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 379135387X
• ISBN 13: 9783791353876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art - American - California

About this title

Synopsis

This wide-ranging and generously illustrated book focuses on new and cutting-edge artwork created in Southern California. Celebrating the Hammer Museum’s biennial, this volume brings together the work of thirty-five emerging and under-recognized artists from Los Angeles. It features new installations, videos, films, sculptures, performances, and paintings, much of it commissioned especially for the biennial, and offers a snapshot of the L.A. scene. Each artist is featured in multiple pages, along with six fold-out inserts specifically designed for the book by some of the artists featured in the exhibition. Essays by the exhibition’s curators and many of its artists round out this volume that showcases one of America’s most fertile and exciting artistic environments.

About the Author

Connie Butler is the chief curator at the Hammer Museum. She is also the co-editor of Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art. Michael Ned Holte has written extensively on the L.A. art scene, including such publications as Live Art in LA: Performance in Southern California, 1970-1983 and In the Shadow of Numbers: Charles Gaines Selected Works from 1975-2012. He is a member