American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Arts & Photography

Quick, Michael

Fort, Ilene Susan

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Los Angeles County Museum

The notion of utopia exists in every culture, capturing shared dreams and common goals. This book--prepared to accompany the exhibition Expressionist Utopias mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1993--explores how the optimistic themes of utopia and fantasy sustained faith among artists and architects in the power of art to shape a better world during the tumultuous World War I era in Germany. The exhibition's curator, Timothy O. Benson along with David Frisby, Reinhold Heller, Anton Kaes, Wolf Prix, and Iain Boyd White present the diverse manifestations of the utopia metaphor in its progression throughout Expressionism from Arcadian to manmade utopias.This work includes a new essay and an interview by Edward Dimenberg with Wolf Prix on the spectacular installation created for the exhibition by the Viennese architectural firm Coop Himmelblau.

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

Benson, Timothy O.

History & Criticism

Published in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Index, bibliography. 228 illustrations, including 154 plates in color. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Previous owners signed presentation on ffep.

DAY IN THE COUNTRY IMPRESSIONISM AND THE FRENCH LANDSCAPE

Richard R. Brettell

Painting

From Publishers Weekly European Egyptologists Jean-Fran ois Champollion and Howard Carter are famed, but what of the Americans George Reisner, James Henry Breasted and Herbert Winlock? The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt by Nancy Thomas, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, retrieves them from near-obscurity in essays by Gerry D. Scott III and Bruce G. Trigger and 227 illustrations (70 in color) of objects excavated by Americans and displayed in the extensive collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and other U.S. museums. (Abrams, $49.50 288p ISBN 0-8109-6312-4)Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt

Trigger, Bruce G.

Thomas, Nancy

Scott, Gerry D., III

Book by Allen, James P., Arnold, Dorothea, Bell, Lanny, Bianchi, Robert Steven, Brovarski, Edward, Fazzini, Richard A., Kendall, Timothy, Lacovara, Peter, O'Connor, David, Weeks, Kent R.

The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt: Essays

History

Allen, James P.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Weeks, Kent R.

Lacovara, Peter

Arnold, Dorothea

Fazzini, Richard A.

O’Connor, David

Bianchi, Robert Steven

Kendall, Timothy

American Research Center in Egypt

Bell, Lanny

Brovarski, Edward

Ancient Civilizations

The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland explores the art derived from and created about the legendary area that encompasses the American Southwest and portions of Mexico, from long before they were separated by an international border to the present day. Produced to accompany a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Road to Aztlan contains nineteen essays by an international team of scholars and artists who investigate the concept of Aztlan as a metaphoric center and allegorical place of origin for the various peoples of the Southwest and Mexico. Cultural interactions between the two areas span three millennia, beginning with the knowledge of maize agriculture, which spread north from Mexico around 1200 B.C. The contributors to this volume explore the relationship between myth and history as expressed in the region's art and material culture, as well as the evolution and persistence of cultural practices over the course of the pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary eras.

The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland

Zamudio-Taylor, Victor

Fields, Virginia M.

Americas

Published in conjunction with the major exhibition, The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland explores the art derived from and created about the legendary area that encompasses the American Southwest and portions of Mexico long before they were separated by an international border. The book and accompanying exhibition view Aztlan as a metaphoric center and allegorical place of origin for the various peoples of the Southwest and Mexico. Cultural interactions between the two areas span two millennia, beginning with maize cultivation, which spread north from Mexico around BC 1200. The Road to Aztlan also investigates the relationship between myth and history as expressed in art and material culture of the region’s inhabitants over time and the relationship and continuities of cultural practices over the course of the pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary eras. Crucial to these changing relationships are aspects of tradition and innovation within cultures as! people sought to negotiate, maintain, and redefine their identities in the face of social disruption. 
Nineteen essays by an international team of scholars and artists including Miguel León-Portilla, Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Polly Schaafsma, Stephen H. Lekson, and Victoria D. Vargas address the issues and concepts that revolve around a sense of place and the dynamic traditions of the past and what that means today.

Exhibition catalog. Well illustrated. Foreword by Kenneth Donahue. 121p. Carter Collection is focused exclusively on landscapes, seascapes, town views, still lifes and church interiors by all the major masters, including Willem van de Velde, Jacob van Ruisdael, Meynder Hobbema, Jan Both, Aelbert Cuyp and Pieter Saenredam.

Mirror of Nature: Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter

Schneider, Cynthia P.

WALSH, JOHN.

Far Eastern Lacquer

Kuwayama

Los Angeles County Museum [Published date: 1985]. Soft cover, 213 pp. [Excerpt from foreword]. It is with great pleasure that we join in presenting George Inness. This exhibition of sixty-three oil paintings by George Inness (1825-94) displays the full range of his mature artistic output from the 1850?s to the last year of his life. The exhibition, which will visit five major metropolitan areas, will be the most widely seen exhibition of Inness paintings ever presented.

George Inness

Nicolai Cikovsky Jr.

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