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.
Pacific Standard Time
These catalogues and publications helped place contemporary art from Southern California on the national map. Several accompanied exhibitions that were held at LACMA.
We have also included 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.
This selection is intended to complement LACMA's contributions to the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative. All were published by LACMA, unless otherwise noted. Grateful acknowledgment is extended to University of California Press.
Paperback, 7 x 7 in., 28 pp., 18 b&w illus.
Paperback, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., [32] pp., 17 b&w illus.
Paperback, 10 1/8 x 5 1/4 in., 48 pp., 43 illus.
Paperback, 4 1/2 x 10 in., n.p. [26 pp.], 6 b&w illus.
Paperback, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., n.p. [20 pp.], 6 b&w illus.
Paperback, 8 1/4 x 8 7/8 in., 253 pp., 101 b&w, 20 color illus.
Hardcover, 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in., 376 pp., 74 b&w, 154 color illus.
Paperback, 9 x 11 1/4 in., 54 pp. + gatefold, 60 b/w, 1 color illus.
Paperback, 8 x 8 in., 32 pp., 15 b&w, 2 color illus.
Paperback, 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 in., 8 pp., 4 b&w illus.
Paperback, 8 1/8 x 8 5/8 in., [44] pp., 19 b&w, 9 color illus.
Paperback, 7 3/4 x 10 in., 114 pp., 151 b&w illus. Published by University of California Press
Paperback, 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 in., n.p. [64 pp.], 41 b&w, 10 color illus.
Paperback, 8 7/8 x 10 7/8 in., 388 pp., 278 b&w illus.
Brochure, 120 x 10 in., 122 b&w illus.
Paperback, 7 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., [28] pp., 31 b&w illus.
Paperback, 8 1/2 x 12 in., 162 pp., 344 b&w, 16 color illus.
Paperback, 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in., 82 pp., 150 b&w illus.
Paperback, 9 1/2 x 12 in., 352 pp., 550 illus. Copublished with University of California Press
European Art at LACMA
LACMA's deep and long-standing involvement with European art is evident in this collection of ten books that highlights works from the early Italian Renaissance to the later twentieth century. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art includes some of the major benefactions of the Ahmanson Foundation, up to 1991. A Mirror of Nature: Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter provides a comprehensive, scholarly presentation of the unparalleled Carter Collection at LACMA, up until 1992. A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, the catalogue of an early blockbuster exhibition, offers a broad, appealing selection of works that demonstrates impressionism as articulating both social and artistic principles. European Painting in the Seventies is an innovative catalogue (a boxed set of eighteen individual brochures) documenting the first U.S. survey of contemporary European artists in more than twenty years.
Paperback, 7 1/4 x 8 1/4 in., n.p. [56 pp.], 45 b&w illus.
Paperback, 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in., 152 pp., 97 b&w, 19 color illus.
Paperback, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8 in., xviii + 118 pp., 74 illus.
Box: 8 3/4 x 7 5/8 in., 84 pp. [introductory brochure, 16 pp.; 16 artist brochures, 4 pp. each; checklist brochure, 4 pp.]; 22 b&w, 16 color illus.
Hardcover, 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in., 376 pp., 74 b&w, 154 color illus.
Paperback, 6 x 8 in., 48 pp, 15 b&w, 8 color illus.
Hardcover, 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in., lxii + 146 pp., 154 b&w, 36 color illus.
Paperback, 9 x 11 1/2 in., 208 pp., 59 b&w, 60 color illus.
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in., 136 pp., 42 b&w, 42 color illus.
Hardcover, 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in., 336 pp., 251 b&w, 21 color illus.
Southeast Asian Art
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