L.A. collects L.A.
Subtitle: Latin America in Southern California Collections
By: Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College ; edited by Jesse Lerner and Ruben Ortiz Torres
Contributors: Lerner, Jesse, editor; Ortiz Torres, Rubén, editor; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project); Getty Research Institute
Publisher: BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9783943514742
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Exhibitions; Latin American Art; American Art; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Description: "Photographs by Rubén Ortiz Torres document the wide range of Latin American art in the collections of Carl Baldwin's Velvetería, April and Ron Dammann, E. Michael 'Baltazar' Díaz, Betty Duker, Armando and María Durón, Alonso Elías and Patricia Fontes Rosas de Elias, Lêda Leitão Martins, Nicholas Pardon, Tom Patchett, Sammy Sayago, Dan Segal, Enrique Serrato, Billy Shire, Esperanza Valverde, Elisabeth Waldo, Richard and Rebecca Zapanta, the Stendahl Gallery, and Bill London's Pedorrero Muffler repair shop. Six essays explore the cultural, political, and social histories of Latin American art and artifacts in Southern California collections, including Matthew H. Robb's sleuthing on the pre-Columbian as MacGuffin in mid-century Los Angeles, Ana Elena Mallet on Taxco Silver in California, Jesse Lerner on the meeting of ancient and modern in the Arensberg collection, Selene Preciado on Chicano art collections and collectors, Rubén Ortiz Torres on the Pedorrero, and Amy Sánchez-Arteaga and Misael Díaz on the Elías Fontes collection"--Publisher's website, https://bomdiabooks.de/product/l-collects-l-latin-america-southern-california-collections/
Notes: "L.A. Collects L.A. : Latin America in Southern California Collections is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than 70 cultural institutions across Southern California. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America. Major support for this publication is provided through a grant from the Getty Foundation." -- back of title page.

"Photographs by Rubén Ortiz Torres document the wide range of Latin American art in the collections of Carl Baldwin's Velvetería, April and Ron Dammann, E. Michael 'Baltazar' Díaz, Betty Duker, Armando and María Durón, Alonso Elías and Patricia Fontes Rosas de Elias, Lêda Leitão Martins, Nicholas Pardon, Tom Patchett, Sammy Sayago, Dan Segal, Enrique Serrato, Billy Shire, Esperanza Valverde, Elisabeth Waldo, Richard and Rebecca Zapanta, the Stendahl Gallery, and Bill London's Pedorrero Muffler repair shop. Six essays explore the cultural, political, and social histories of Latin American art and artifacts in Southern California collections, including Matthew H. Robb's sleuthing on the pre-Columbian as MacGuffin in mid-century Los Angeles, Ana Elena Mallet on Taxco Silver in California, Jesse Lerner on the meeting of ancient and modern in the Arensberg collection, Selene Preciado on Chicano art collections and collectors, Rubén Ortiz Torres on the Pedorrero, and Amy Sánchez-Arteaga and Misael Díaz on the Elías Fontes collection." -- publisher website, https://bomdiabooks.de/product/l-collects-l-latin-america-southern-california-collections/