High and low, sweet and sour, this witty but challenging collection embraces the contradictions, paradoxes, and double entendres of contemporary culture. Since 1991 Tom Patchett has amassed an iconoclastic collection that includes the work of antitraditionalists like Marcel Duchamp and provocative contemporary artists such as Chris Burden. Double Trouble is a two-volume catalogue from the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Auditorio de Galicia, Spain. Featuring more than 350 color reproductions with essays by curator Elizabeth Armstrong, Ralph Rugoff, and others.

Double Trouble-The Patchett Collection (2 volumes)

Rugoff, Ralph

Armstrong, Elizabeth

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The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties

Arts & Photography

Glenn, Constance W.

History & Criticism

Catalog of an exhibition held in New York at the Robert Miller Gallery, June 11-Aug. 7, 1998. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Includes 23 full-page, full-color plates, an interview with Damien Hirst, a chronological table of exhibitions, and an extensive bibliography.

Yayoi Kusama: Now

KUSAMA, YAYOI

Individual Artists

Using technology as both subject and medium of his artistic inventions, Alan Rath's deft hands animate industrial detritus with a curious life force. His sculptures-part botanical, part anthropomorphic, part mechanical-conflate the disparate realms of technology and nature. With a substantial dose of humor, the objects operate as emotional and psychological metaphors, illuminating the ways in which technology shapes our perception of the world. With essays by Peter Boswell, Louis Grachos, John Hanhardt, and Donna Karkavy.

Plants, Animals, People, Machines

Rath, Alan

Of the work and ideas of Daniel J. Martinez, Peter Sellars has said: "He is one of the most important and articulate artists of his generation." This monograph documents projects from 1979-1995, including his controversial and thought-provoking public artworks. His cross-media cultural production is conceptual in its use of language and approach to photography, video, film, sculpture, installations, and performance. Writings by David Levi Strauss, Coco Fusco, Mary Jane Jacob, and Susan Otto.

The Things You See When You Don't Have a Grenade!

Martinez, Daniel J.

Strauss, David Levi.

A book dedicated to the "billions of hens sacrificed each year for our consumption," Blinky is the quintessential conceptual artwork of the 1970s. Blinky is the seriocomic brainchild of artist Jeffrey Vallance, who has taken the concept and processes of documentation to their most absurd conclusion. The "Blinky" of the title is a frozen chicken that Vallance bought at a supermarket, then eulogized and buried at a Los Angeles pet cemetery—complete with open-casket viewing and granite marker. Vallance’s straightforward narrative and simple black-and-white photos offer a striking commentary on our society, our treatment of animals, and death.

Blinky: The Friendly Hen

Vallance, Jeffrey

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated matt laminated paper wrappers, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs, sculpture, paintings, films and mixed media works by Man Ray. Essays by Robert Berman, Tom Patchett, Dickran Tashjian. Interview with James and Barbara Byrnes. Includes notes to the text and a bibliography. Designed by Douglas Martin. 128 pp., with 24 four-color, 16 duotone and 50 black and white reference illustrations. 12 x 9 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1996 exhibition Man Ray: Paris at the Track 16 Gallery and Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California.

Man Ray: Paris-LA (Smart Art Press Series)

Tashjian, Dickran

MAN, RAY

Track 16 Gallery and Mainspace

Robert Berman Gallery

Biographies & Memoirs

Book by Rosenthal, Rachel, Apple, Jacki

Tatti Wattles: A Love Story

Rosenthal, Rachel

Apple, Jacki

The vibrant history of the seminal L.A. art scene comes alive in this book that marries anecdotal asides by larger-than-life personalities with photographs of artists, dealers, collectors, and friends, at work and play. Candid snapshots, photo-booth strips, and formal portraits reveal a sense of camaraderie and chronicle the emergence of Los Angeles as an important center of contemporary art.

Photographing the LA Art Scene, 1955-1975

Craig Krull

Photography & Video

Book by Robinson, Walter, Gleason, Mat

Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula

Robinson, Walter

Patchett, Tom

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