>> Send this page to a friend

Catalog L.A.

Birth of an Art Capital 1955–85 Edited by Catherine Grenier

11 x 11 in; 384 pp ; 400 b/w and color images
Paperback
Published in July, 2007
ISBN 0811859347
ISBN13 9780811859349

$50.00  

Catalog L.A. -- In the latter half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles took off as an international art capital. Catalog L.A. presents a comprehensive timeline of the burgeoning art scene that reflected the city's mélange of pop culture, celebrity, and political influences. Hundreds of images covering all the major exhibitions of the era—along with excerpts from film, television, literature, and current events—provide a historical perspective on the metropolis's cultural and artistic innovations. A compendium of modern art, ephemera, critical texts, and revealing interviews, this archive chronicles the city's thirty-year metamorphosis into an art giant. Based upon a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2006, Catalog L.A. illuminates a radical period that forever altered the landscape of contemporary art.

Catherine Grenier is an independent curator working for the French Ministry of Culture and various museums. The former Head of Contemporary collections at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, she curated the show "Los Angeles 1955-1985" at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2006.