Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Economics

Business & Money

David E. James

C.D. Throsby

Economics

John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

Economics of Dryland Management

John Dixon

Paul B. Sherman

Routledge

Sons And Daughters Of Los: Culture And Community In L.A. (Wide Angle Books)

Los Angeles. A city that is synonymous with celebrity and mass-market culture, is also, according to David James, synonymous with social alienation and dispersal. In the communities of Los Angeles, artists, cultural institutions and activities exist in ways that are often concealed from sight, obscured by the powerful presence of Hollywood and its machinations. In this significant collection of original essays, "The Sons and Daughters of Los "reconstructs the city of Los Angeles with new cultural connections. Explored here are the communities that offer alternatives to the picture of L..A. as a conglomeration of studios and mass media. Each essay examines a particular piece of, or place in, Los Angeles cultural life: from the Beyond Baroque Poetry Foundation, the Woman's Building, to Highways, and LACE, as well as the achievements of these grassroots initiatives. Also included is critical commentary on important artists, including Harry Gamboa, Jr., and others whose work have done much to shape popular culture in L.A. The cumulative effect of reading this book is to see a very different city take shape, one whose cultural landscape is far more innovative and reflective of the diversity of the city's people than mainstream notions of it suggest. "The Sons and Daughters of Los" offers a substantive and complicated picture of the way culture plays itself it out on the smallest scaleOCoin one of the largest metropolises on earthOCocontributing to a richer, more textured understanding of the vibrancy of urban life and art."

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Temple University Press

ASCO: Elite of the Obscure is the first comprehensive monograph to survey the wide-ranging activities of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group ASCO. Active between 1972 and 1987, ASCO began as a tight-knit core of artists from east Los Angeles: Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk, Willie Herrón and Patssi Valdez. Taking their name from the Spanish idiomatic word for disgust and nausea, ASCO launched their response to turbulent socio-political conditions in Los Angeles and the larger international context through performance, public art and multimedia. Geographically and culturally segregated from the then-nascent Los Angeles contemporary art scene, and aesthetically at odds with the emerging Chicano art movement, ASCO united to explore and exploit what they saw as the unlimited media of the conceptual. ASCO: Elite of the Obscure includes reproductions of previously unpublished works and reprinted historical documents, along with new critical essays.

ASCO: Elite of the Obscure: A Retrospective 1972-1987

C. Ondine Chavoya

Rita Gonzalez

Amelia Jones

Chon A. Noriega

Jesse Lerner

Deborah Cullen

Maris Bustamante

Colin Gunckel

David, Roman

Reference

Hatje Cantz

Bill Viola. Electronic Renaissance

Giunti Editore

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