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The 2006 exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris featured work from over 80 artists as a means of showcasing art in Los Angeles during an important 30-year period. The work in LA was dynamic and distinct, and it has been under appreciated given the large shadow cast by New York. This catalog begins with essays discussing LA as an "experimental city," southern California culture, and independent film. A year-by-year compendium follows, comprising the bulk of the book: a half dozen pages or more devoted to each year, with a melange of captioned images, narrative text, and excerpted magazine articles and interviews offering a multifaceted view of the city and its creative spirit. The format is oversize: 11x11". Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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In the latter half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles took off as an international art capital. Catalog L.A. presents acomprehensive timeline of the burgeoning art scene that reflected the city's mlange of pop culture, celebrity, and political influences. Hundreds of images covering all the major exhibitions of the eraalong with excerpts from film, television, literature, and current eventsprovide 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.
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