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Pacific standard time : Los Angeles art, 1945-1980 / edited by Rebecca Peabody ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Peabody, Rebecca | J. Paul Getty Museum | Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany).
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011Description: xxi, 330 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.ISBN: 9781606060728 (hbk.).Subject(s): Painting, American -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions | Sculpture, American -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 709.7949409045
Contents:
Introduction: Shifting the standard: reappraising art in Los Angeles / Rebecca Peabody et al. -- Floating structures: building the modern in postwar Los Angeles / Andrew Perchuk and Catherine Taft -- Papa's got a brand new bag: crafting an art scene / Lucy Bradnock and Rani Singh -- For people who know the difference: defining the pop art sixties / Ken D. Allan, Lucy Bradnock, and Lisa Turvey -- Duration piece: rethinking sculpture in Los Angeles / Donna Conwell and Glenn Phillips -- Here, here or there: on the whereabouts of art in the seventies / Jane McFadden.
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"This volume is published on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California, and accompanies the Getty Research Institute's exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from 1 October 2011 through 5 February 2012 and at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, from 15 March through 10 June 2012."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Shifting the standard: reappraising art in Los Angeles / Rebecca Peabody et al. -- Floating structures: building the modern in postwar Los Angeles / Andrew Perchuk and Catherine Taft -- Papa's got a brand new bag: crafting an art scene / Lucy Bradnock and Rani Singh -- For people who know the difference: defining the pop art sixties / Ken D. Allan, Lucy Bradnock, and Lisa Turvey -- Duration piece: rethinking sculpture in Los Angeles / Donna Conwell and Glenn Phillips -- Here, here or there: on the whereabouts of art in the seventies / Jane McFadden.