Scene of the crime
By: Ralph Rugoff ; with contributions by Anthony Vidler and Peter Wollen ; initiated and sponsored by the Fellows of Contemporary Art and organized by UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.
Contributors: Vidler, Anthony.; Wollen, Peter.; Fellows of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.); UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.
Publisher: Published in association with the MIT Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Conceptual art -- California -- Exhibitions; Visual communication -- California -- Exhibitions; Crime scene searches in art -- Exhibitions
Description: Scene of the Crime surveys thirty-five years of West Coast art, investigating aesthetic practices that address the art object as a kind of evidence, a clue to absent meanings and prior actions.

From seminal works by Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Barry Le Va, and Vija Celmins to recent works by artists such as Paul McCarthy, James Luna, Anthony Hernandez, and Sharon Lockhart, this art declares that it is about more than meets the eye and raises the suspicion that a significant segment of contemporary art demands a forensic reading.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Catalog of an exhibition held in Los Angeles, July 23-Oct. 5, 1997.