Under the big black sun
Subtitle: California art, 1974-1981
By: organized by Paul Schimmel
Contributors: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art; Prestel
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783791351391
Subjects: American Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: California art, 1974-1981
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 2011-Feb. 13, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Paul Schimmel; title: Plural isms : California art and artists of the mid- to late 1970s / Peter Frank; title: Negative affirmative : San Francisco Bay Area art, 1974-1981 / Kristine Stiles; title: In and out of the studio / Frances Colpitt; title: A kind of truth / Charles Desmarais; title: The art of the fugitive in 1970s Los Angeles : runaway self-consciousness / Thomas Crow; title: Rattlesnake in mailbox : the great unraveling (and a little braiding together) / Rebecca Solnit; title: Checklist of the exhibition.