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Expressionism and Los Angeles: German Expressionist Publications at LACMA

LACMA's long intellectual involvement with the German expressionist movement has resulted in a number of important publications, seven of them gathered here. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, presenting the massive holdings (c. 1989) of LACMA's Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, is a two-volume catalogue raisonné of one of the world's most comprehensive collections of such material. "Degenerate Art": The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany examines the infamous 1937 exhibition that helped define Nazi aesthetics by denigrating modern art. Several monographic books highlight the work of artists connected with expressionism, including Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Ludwig Meidner. Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy looks at some of the ways in which artists attempted to sustain a vision of a better world.

German Expressionist Sculpture

Stephanie Barron

1983

Prints by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: A Centenary Celebration

Gunther Thiem

1985

German Expressionism, 1915-1925: The Second Generation

Stephanie Barron

1988

German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, Vol 1

Stephanie Barron, et al.

1989

German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, Vol 2

Bruce Davis

1989

The Apocalyptic Landscapes of Ludwig Meidner

Carol S. Eliel

1989

"Degenerate Art": The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany

Stephanie Barron

1991

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

Timothy O. Benson

1993

Pacific Standard Time

These catalogues and publications helped place contemporary art from Southern California on the national map. Several accompanied exhibitions that were held at LACMA.

We have also included publications documenting one-person shows—Edward Kienholz and Billy Al Bengston, for example—to the massive, genre-creating A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967—1971.

This selection is intended to complement LACMA's contributions to the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative. All were published by LACMA, unless otherwise noted. Grateful acknowledgment is extended to University of California Press.

Craftsmanship

1958
Paperback, 7 x 7 in., 28 pp., 18 b&w illus.

Craftsmanship

1960
Paperback, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., [32] pp., 17 b&w illus.

Six Painters and the Object

Lawrence Alloway

1963
Paperback, 4 1/2 x 10 in., n.p. [26 pp.], 6 b&w illus.

Six More

Lawrence Alloway

1963
Paperback, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., n.p. [20 pp.], 6 b&w illus.

New York School: The First Generation, Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s

Maurice Tuchman

1965
Paperback, 8 1/4 x 8 7/8 in., 253 pp., 101 b&w, 20 color illus.

A Guide to Architecture in Southern California

David Gebhard and Robert Winter

1965
Hardcover, 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in., 376 pp., 74 b&w, 154 color illus.

Edward Kienholz

Maurice Tuchman

1966
Paperback, 9 x 11 1/4 in., 54 pp. + gatefold, 60 b/w, 1 color illus.

Robert Irwin Kenneth Price

Maurice Tuchman

1966
Paperback, 8 x 8 in., 32 pp., 15 b&w, 2 color illus.

Late Fifties at the Ferus

James Monte

1966
Paperback, 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 in., 8 pp., 4 b&w illus.

The Ceramic Work of Gertrud and Otto Natzler: A Retrospective Exhibition

Preface by Otto Natzler

1966
Paperback, 8 1/8 x 8 5/8 in., [44] pp., 19 b&w, 9 color illus.

R. M. Schindler

David Gebhard

1967
Paperback, 7 3/4 x 10 in., 114 pp., 151 b&w illus. Published by University of California Press

Billy Al Bengston

James Monte

1968
Paperback, 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 in., n.p. [64 pp.], 41 b&w, 10 color illus.

A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967–1971

Maurice Tuchman

1971
Paperback, 8 7/8 x 10 7/8 in., 388 pp., 278 b&w illus.

Los Four: Almaraz / de la Rocha / Luján / Romero

Carlos Almaraz, Roberto de la Rocha, Gilbert Luján, and Frank Romero

1973
Brochure, 120 x 10 in., 122 b&w illus.

Chicanismo en el Arte

Jeanne D'Andrea

1975
Paperback, 7 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., [28] pp., 31 b&w illus.

Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties

Maurice Tuchman

1981
Paperback, 8 1/2 x 12 in., 162 pp., 344 b&w, 16 color illus.

The Museum as Site: Sixteen Projects

Stephanie Barron

1981
Paperback, 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in., 82 pp., 150 b&w illus.

Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000

Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernstein, and Ilene Susan Fort

2001
Paperback, 9 1/2 x 12 in., 352 pp., 550 illus. Copublished with University of California Press

European Art at LACMA

LACMA's deep and long-standing involvement with European art is evident in this collection of ten books that highlights works from the early Italian Renaissance to the later twentieth century. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art includes some of the major benefactions of the Ahmanson Foundation, up to 1991. A Mirror of Nature: Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter provides a comprehensive, scholarly presentation of the unparalleled Carter Collection at LACMA, up until 1992. A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, the catalogue of an early blockbuster exhibition, offers a broad, appealing selection of works that demonstrates impressionism as articulating both social and artistic principles. European Painting in the Seventies is an innovative catalogue (a boxed set of eighteen individual brochures) documenting the first U.S. survey of contemporary European artists in more than twenty years.

Georges Rouault: Prints from the Collection of Harold P. and Jane F. Ullman

Ebria Feinblatt

1961
Paperback, 7 1/4 x 8 1/4 in., n.p. [56 pp.], 45 b&w illus.

Chaim Soutine, 1893–1943

Maurice Tuchman

1968
Paperback, 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in., 152 pp., 97 b&w, 19 color illus.

Edvard Munch: Lithographs, Etchings, Woodcuts

Ebria Feinblatt

1969
Paperback, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8 in., xviii + 118 pp., 74 illus.

European Painting in the Seventies: New Work by Sixteen Artists

Maurice Tuchman

1975
Box: 8 3/4 x 7 5/8 in., 84 pp. [introductory brochure, 16 pp.; 16 artist brochures, 4 pp. each; checklist brochure, 4 pp.]; 22 b&w, 16 color illus.

A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape

Richard Brettell, Scott Schaefer, et al.

1990, 2nd ed.
Hardcover, 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in., 376 pp., 74 b&w, 154 color illus.

Dressed for the Country: 1860–1900

Evelyn Ackerman

1984
Paperback, 6 x 8 in., 48 pp, 15 b&w, 8 color illus.

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

John Walsh, Jr., and Cynthia P. Schneider

1992, 2nd ed.
Hardcover, 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in., lxii + 146 pp., 154 b&w, 36 color illus.

The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Philip Conisbee, Mary L. Levkoff, et al.

1991
Paperback, 9 x 11 1/2 in., 208 pp., 59 b&w, 60 color illus.

Italian Panel Painting of the Early Renaissance in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Susan L. Caroselli

1994
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in., 136 pp., 42 b&w, 42 color illus.

Mannerist Prints: International Style in the Sixteenth Century

Bruce Davis

1998
Hardcover, 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in., 336 pp., 251 b&w, 21 color illus.

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