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Notes:
Published to accompany an exhibition held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 1 Oct. 2011-13 Feb. 2012.
""Under the Big Black Sun : California Art 1974-1981" is part of Pacific Standarad Time : Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across southern California."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- California pluralism and the birth of the Postmodern Era / Paul Schimmel -- Plural isms : California art and artists of the mid- to late 1970s / Peter Frank -- Negative affirmative : San Francisco Bay Area art, 1974-1981 / Kristine Stiles -- The art of the fugitive in 1970s Los Angeles : runaway self-consciousness / Thomas Crow -- In and out of the studio / Frances Colpitt -- A kind of truth / Charles Desmarais -- Rattlesnake in mailbox : the great unraveling (and a little braiding together) / Rebecca Solnit -- Plates -- Annotated chronology of group exhibitions and selected bibliography / Leta Ming -- Posters -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Index.
Summary:
The years between Richard Nixon's resignation and Ronald Reagan's election as president were difficult ones for America. Artists in particular were sensitive to enormous divisions in the country's moods and beliefs. Examining art-making in California during a tumultuous transitional period, this catalogue accompanying a remarkable exhibition features approximately 125 California artists working in a wide array of media: from installation art to representational painting, from conceptual art to performance art, and from video to photography. Penetrating essays by leading art historians, critics, and curators explore the history and development of pluralist art practices throughout California; the artists' responses to questions about race, gender, politics and war; and the emergence of new movements and trends such as punk, post-studio art and postmodernism. Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 is part of Pacific Standard Time, an initiative of the Getty.
Biography: PAUL SCHIMMEL is Chief Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and curator of Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981. LISA GABRIELLE MARK was formerly Director of Publications at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. |