Pacific standard time
Subtitle: Los Angeles art, 1945-1980
By: edited by Rebecca Peabody ... [et al.].
Contributors: J. Paul Getty Museum; Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
Publisher: Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781606060728
Subjects: American Sculpture; Themes, motives; Exhibitions; American Painting
Description: "This comprehensive, richly illustrated book explores postwar American art from a new perspective: Southern California. Grounded in more than a decade of research, Pacific Standard Time analyzes L.A.'s art scene from the end of World War II to the beginning of the 1980s, demonstrating the pioneering role Southern California artists played in the twentieth century's most influential art movements."--p. [4] of cover.
Notes: "This volume is published on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California, and accompanies the Getty Research Institute's exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from 1 October 2011 through 5 February 2012 and at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, from 15 March through 10 June 2012."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Shifting the standard: reappraising art in Los Angeles / Rebecca Peabody et al.; title: Floating structures: building the modern in postwar Los Angeles / Andrew Perchuk and Catherine Taft; title: Papa's got a brand new bag: crafting an art scene / Lucy Bradnock and Rani Singh; title: For people who know the difference: defining the pop art sixties / Ken D. Allan, Lucy Bradnock, and Lisa Turvey; title: Duration piece: rethinking sculpture in Los Angeles / Donna Conwell and Glenn Phillips; title: Here, here or there: on the whereabouts of art in the seventies / Jane McFadden.