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Expressionism and Los Angeles: German Expressionist Publications at LACMA

LACMA's long intellectual involvement with the German expressionist movement has resulted in a number of important publications, seven of them gathered here. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, presenting the massive holdings (c. 1989) of LACMA's Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, is a two-volume catalogue raisonné of one of the world's most comprehensive collections of such material. “Degenerate Art”: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany examines the infamous 1937 exhibition that helped define Nazi aesthetics by denigrating modern art. Several monographic books highlight the work of artists connected with expressionism, including Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Ludwig Meidner. Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy looks at some of the ways in which artists attempted to sustain a vision of a better world.

German Expressionist Sculpture

Stephanie Barron

1983

Prints by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: A Centenary Celebration

Gunther Thiem

1985

German Expressionism, 1915-1925: The Second Generation

Stephanie Barron

1988

German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, Vol 1

Stephanie Barron, et al.

1989

German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, Vol 2

Bruce Davis

1989

The Apocalyptic Landscapes of Ludwig Meidner

Carol S. Eliel

1989

"Degenerate Art": The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany

Stephanie Barron

1991

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

Timothy O. Benson

1993

Southern California Art of the 1960s and 1970s

Our first Reading Room offering comprises ten exhibition catalogues, mostly from the 1960s, that definitively placed contemporary art from Southern California on the national map or furthered the dialogue between Los Angeles and New York. These range from publications documenting one-person shows—Edward Kienholz and Billy Al Bengston, for example—to the massive, genre-creating A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967–1971.

Six Painters and the Object

Lawrence Alloway

1963

Six More

Lawrence Alloway

1963

New York School: The First Generation, Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s

Maurice Tuchman

1965

Edward Kienholz

Maurice Tuchman

1966

Robert Irwin Kenneth Price

Maurice Tuchman

1966

Late Fifties at the Ferus

James Monte

1966

Billy Al Bengston

James Monte

1968

A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967–1971

Maurice Tuchman

1971

Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties

Maurice Tuchman

1981

The Museum as Site: Sixteen Projects

Stephanie Barron

1981

Publications have always been a crucial part of disseminating LACMA's curatorial vision. Over the years, the museum's publications have featured groundbreaking scholarship and become crucial reference sources. In some cases they are also highly sought-after collector's items. The Reading Room will continue to make available electronic facsimiles of the full range of these important documents, including material, current and past, from all areas of the museum.