State of Mind
New California Art circa 1970
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2011
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-520-27061-9 (ISBN)
Description
"State of Mind", the lavishly illustrated companion book to the exhibition of the same name, investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art - in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. The essays reveal connections between the northern and southern California Conceptual art scenes and argue that Conceptualism's experimental practices and an array of then-new media - performance, site-specific installations, film and video, mail art, and artists' publications - continue to exert an enormous influence on the artists working today.
Reviews / Votes
"A pleasure... The curators have written short, elucidating comments for almost everything here, about 150 items. Not only do their words bring individual images to life; but they also add up to an absorbing narrative of a place and an era." -- Holland Cotter New York Times "Provocative... Puts pressure on the category of idea-based art through a focus on the body, ritual, media and the social world." -- Gillian Young Art in America "While showing a real breadth, and the consistency of various sorts of conceptual thinking, [State of Mind is] in fact very useful in terms of ways in which an artist could reinvent their congenial mediums to express social, political, as well as artistic concerns." -- Phong Bui The Brooklyn Rail "Will leave [locals] ... wondering how they failed to notice so much provocative activity - a lot of it very public - when it occurred." San Francisco Chronicle "Constance Lewallen and Karen Moss take advantage of [the] outsider position, making use of art's ability to conjure or invent new meanings and contexts." -- Maika Pollack Gallerist NY "Makes for conceptual art's continued influence on contemporary art." Public Art Review "Informative and well written." Orange County RegisterMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
64 color illustrations, 123 b-w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 238 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1112 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-27061-9 (9780520270619)
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Persons
Constance Lewallen is adjunct curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the author of several UC Press titles, including Ant Farm 1968-1978 and A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s. Karen Moss is adjunct curator at the Orange County Museum of Art.