Speaking in tongues
Subtitle: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976
By: [exhibition curators] Claudia Bohn-Spector, Sam Mellon
Contributors: Heinecken, Robert, 1931-2006; Bohn-Spector, Claudia; Mellon, Sam; Armory Center for the Arts; University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography; Pacific Standard Time (Exhibition)
Publisher: Armory Center for the Arts; distributed by RAM
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Pasadena, Calif; Santa Monica, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9781893900172; 9780983338512
Subjects: Exhibitions; American Art; Modern Art
Description: 'Speaking in Tongues...' brings, for the first time, two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation. The exhibition examines how Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, Oct. 8, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012 and at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 25-May 20, 2012.

The exhibition "is part of Pacific Standard Time. Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time will take place for six months beginning in October 2011"--T.p. verso.

Consists of a 48 p. booklet and 38 individual color plates housed in a cardboard box.

Includes bibliographical references (p.46).
Table of contents: title: Tongue in cheek : the strange relationship between Robert Heinecken and Wallace Berman  -- Colin Westerbeck; title: Rearguard revolutionaries : Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken  -- Claudia Bohn-Spector; title: Feeling for the dude : brotherhood and masculinity creeping in through the ether  -- Sam Mellon; title: Wordsmithing : mixing the verbal and the visual in the art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken.