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OUT OF STOCK the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection This bountiful volume of photographic self-portraits contains nearly 140 works and spans the entire history of the medium. Created by some of photography's finest artists—including Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Nauman, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol—the images form a fascinating gallery of self-scrutiny and self-exposure. The catalogue, which was produced in conjunction with the LACMA exhibition, also pays tribute to collectors Audrey and Sydney Irmas, who donated this impressive body of works to the museum. Essays by photohistorian (and daughter of the collectors) Deborah Irmas and LACMA’s Curator of Photography—plus brief biographies of each photographer—accompany the images. PHOTOGRAPHY 1994, 9 x 12 inches, 240 pp, 47 color and 101 duotone images Softcover, ISBN 0875871712 code: lacma cam F-2

OUT OF STOCK Glass: Material Matters For more than three millennia glass has been an essential aspect of material and visual culture. Its remarkable physical properties result in a medium of boundless utilitarian purpose and remarkable aesthetic expression. Glass: Material Matters is unique in exploring the artistic use of glass across a diverse range of decorative objects, sculpture, conceptual art, and architecture in a single volume. Featured artists and architects include Kiki Smith, Christopher Wilmarth, Bruce Nauman, Lynda Benglis, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano and Rem Koolhaas. GLASS ART 2006, 9 x 9 inches, 176 pp, color illus Hardover, ISBN 087587-195-X code: lacma gla F-1

OUT OF STOCK Lee Mullican: An Abundant Harvest of Sun Lee Mullican's formidable oeuvre gets an overdue retrospective in this catalogue of LACMA’s 2005 exhibition. It represents a comprehensive collection of the artist’s work, which is characterized by a broad range of influences and references—from Native American art and Surrealism, to Zen Buddhism and Hinduism. By addressing the apparent conflict between abstraction and figuration, Mullican addressed issues central to the art of the second half of the twentieth century. Color images are included alongside an essay by curator Carol S. Eliel and an homage to Mullican as a teacher and mentor by fellow Los Angeles painter Lari Pittman. CONTEMPORARY ART 2005, 8 x 10 inches, 136 pp, color illus Hardcover, ISBN 0-87587-194-1 code: lacma lee F-1

OUT OF STOCK Robert Therrien Robert Therrien creates two- and three-dimensional works—both abstract and figural—that transform elements from popular culture and everyday life, simultaneously exploiting and transcending their prosaic associations. Published in conjunction with LACMA’s mid-career survey, this volume explores the transformation of forms that has been the hallmark of Therrien’s artistic process. Curator Lynn Zelevansky writes in her catalogue essay, “the physical and intellectual are indistinguishable in Therrien’s art; he defines issues for himself that are simultaneously technical and conceptual. Moving easily between two and three dimensions, he is an inveterate experimenter with a remarkably fluid relationship to medium. Typically, when he becomes intrigued with an image he will render it in a variety of mediums and sizes, often over a period of years.” In addition to color images, the book contains three informative essays and a chronology of the artist’s work. CONTEMPORARY ART 2000, 9 x 11 inches, 112 pp, color images Softcover, ISBN 0875871860 code: lacma ther F-1

OUT OF STOCK Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 This impressive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. A distillation of the exhibition—which gathers more than 1,200 artworks and pieces of ephemera from both public and private collections—Made in California is an image-driven look at the past century. It features over 400 works in a range of media—from painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs to furniture, fashion, and film. Arranged thematically, and placed alongside cultural artifacts such as tourist brochures, posters, labor union tracts, personal letters, and government reports, these art works take the reader on a visual tour of a state that was promoted as a bountiful paradise early in the century; as a glamour capital by Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s; as a suburban utopia in the late '40s and '50s; as a haven for counterculture in the '60s and '70s, and as a multicultural frontier in the '80s and '90s. The book's exploration of how these themes were reflected and contested in California's visual culture deepens our understanding of the state's artistic traditions as well as its fascinating history. Each of the five twenty-year sections includes a narrative essay discussing the history of that era and highlighting topics particularly relevant to its visual culture; in addition, geographer Michael Dear contributes an overview of the social history of California and essayist Richard Rodriguez offers a uniquely personal meditation on the state. Please note: a few of the many hundreds of images are of mature content. ART SURVEY 2000, 9.5 x 12 inches, 351 pp, 177 b&w and 365 color images Softcover, ISBN 0520227654 code: lacma made F-2

 

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