LOS ANGELES ESSENTIALS
Books published by Smart Art Press about the seminal figures and movements that shaped L.A.'s cultural landscape.
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Anthony Hernandez: Pictures for Rome
$ 14.99
Anthony Hernandez's Pictures for Rome (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, make no reference to any iconic images of that...
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Beck and Al Hansen: Playing with Matches [OOP]
$ 25.00
Featuring collages, assemblages, drawings, facsimile texts, and never-before-seen photographs, Beck and Al Hansen: Playing with Matches examines th...
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Burt Payne 3: The World Is Getting To Be A Funner Place (1994)
$ 25.00
Payne's infamous book based on his CalArts MFA thesis that explored the school's admissions process. He secretly applied to the school under four a...
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Cameron Jamie: Rugburn [Pinspot #3]
$ 9.00
The inspiration for Cameron Jamie's Rugburn is a late-sixties phenomenon known as apartment wrestling, in which participants staged wrestling match...
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Charles LaBelle: Disappearer [Pinspot #8]
$ 9.50
Charles LaBelle succeeds in visually articulating the poetics of lived experiences by examining the parameters of the spaces between the concrete a...
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Chris Kraus: Aliens and Anorexia
$ 12.00
Written in the shadow of Georg Lenz, Aliens and Anorexia defines a female form of chance that is radical and emotional. The book unfolds like a set...
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Coagula Art Journal 1992-1997 [Box Set]
$ 75.00
Follow the art and the art world through the nineties as Coagula grows from a four-page zine to the national scandal it is today. Self-described as...
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Daniel J. Martinez, The Things You See When You Dont Have A Grenade!
$ 10.00
Of the work and ideas of Daniel J. Martinez, Peter Sellars has said: [He is] one of the most important and articulate artists of his generation. Im...
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Darby Crash: Ann Summa Exhibition Poster
$ 15.00
Los Angeles: Photographs by Ann SummaCurated by Kristine McKennaTrack 16 GalleryNovember 17-December 15, 2007Exhibition Poster/Mailer, double sided...
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Dennis Hollingsworth
$ 9.99
Of the paintings documented in this catalogue, David Pagel of the Los Angeles Times has written: With delicate palettes of beige, cream and custard...
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Distant Relations. Chicano, Irish, Mexican Art and Critical Writing
$ 9.99
Twelve artists and twenty-one writers of Chicano, Irish, and Mexican heritage tackle the issue of how to mount an effective front against the domin...
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Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection (Hardcover)
$ 25.00
This substantial double volume catalog was published by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and the Auditorio de Galicia, Spain. High and low...
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Exene Cervenka: America the Beautiful [Pinspot #15]
$ 9.99
America the Beautiful is published in conjunction with Exene Cervenkas first one person exhibition, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, in the fall ...
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Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk
$ 20.00
Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk brings to life the unprecedented musical and artistic energy of the Los Angeles punk scene that flourished fro...
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Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk Poster [2nd Edition]
$ 19.95
Poster from Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk, the exhibit of the unprecedented musical and artistic energy of the Los Angles punk scene that fl...
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Fred Tomaselli [Exhibition Catalogue]
$ 9.99
Using drugs, bugs, and resins, Fred Tomaselli constructs multilayered paintings that are eye-popping and resolute in their pursuit of unabashed bea...
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Frozen Walt Doll by Burt Payne 3 and Stephen Hillenburg
$ 175.00
There is a persistent rumor that Walt Disney was cyrogenically preserved in the basement of a building on the idyllic Cal Arts campus. The mystery ...
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Georganne Deen [Exhibition Catalogue]
$ 12.00
In her paintings Georganne Deen dissects her most intimate family dramas. Rendered in a comic style, they mine emotionally charged materials and ex...
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Jeffrey Vallance: "Blinky, The Friendly Hen"
$ 12.00
A book dedicated to the billions of hens sacrificed each year for our consumption, Blinky is the quintessential conceptual artwork of the 1970s. Bl...
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Jeffrey Vallance: "Blinky, The Friendly Hen" Bumper Sticker [Limited Edition]
$ 10.00
Blinky, the quintessential conceptual artwork of the 1970s, is the seriocomic brainchild of artist Jeffrey Vallance, who has taken the concept and ...
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Jeffrey Vallance: "Blinky, The Friendly Hen" Flying Disk [Limited Edition]
$ 20.00
Blinky, the quintessential conceptual artwork of the 1970s, is the seriocomic brainchild of artist Jeffrey Vallance, who has taken the concept and ...
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Jeffrey Vallance: The Blinky Trifecta
$ 30.00
The Blinky Trifecta consists of the book, the flying disk, and the bumper sticker. It‰۪s like getting the bumper sticker for free. You‰۪ve got a bu...
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Jim Shaw: Dreams
$ 15.00
Just published The long overdue 2nd printing of Dreams.
Most people consider their dreams private propertytoo personal, too scary, and too weird to...
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Jim Shaw: Everything Must Go
$ 17.95
A survey of his career from 1974 to the present, Everything Must Go is the first catalogue to incorporate the full range of Jim Shaws profoundly or...
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Jody Zellen: Invisible Cities [Pinspot #2]
$ 9.99
The Invisible Cities series is a suite of computer-generated photographs that juxtapose the mysteries of image and text. In each image a found phot...
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John Divola: Continuity
$ 20.00
The creation of seamless illusion without jarring disruptions of cinematic space or time remains the driving tenet of Hollywood cinema. The preserv...
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L.A., At the Center and On the Edge [Blood, Sweat & Tears]
$ 9.99
Los Angeles: At the Center & On the Edge explores the graphic making machines that marked the decades from the 60s to the 90s. Also includes an...
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Laurie Steelink: Clowndog [Pinspot #5]
$ 9.99
Like Frankensteins monster, the surreal characters in Laurie Steelinks meticulous drawings are cobbled together from sources in the animal world, a...
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Live at Beyond Baroque CD
$ 25.00
Recorded live at Beyond Baroque literary space in Venice, California, on March 4th, 1999, this lively CD features readings by Exene Cervenka, Karen...
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Liza Lou [Exhibition Catalogue]
$ 11.99
This jewel-like book documents Kitchen and Back Yard, Lous extravagant domestic environments made entirely of tiny glass beadsmillions of them! In ...
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Love at the End of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day
$ 9.99
This exhibition catalogue gathers work born out of the sunshine and noir of Los Angeles. Fluent in the lingo of postmodern art history, the artists...
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Lun*na Menoh: 1988-2006 [Pinspot #16]
$ 9.99
Published in conjunction with the first full career survey of Los Angeles artist Lunna Menoh, which was mounted by Track 16 Gallery in 2006, Lunna ...
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Man Ray: Paris~LA [Hardcover Exhibition Catalogue]
$ 19.99
Man Ray: Paris>>L.A. is the first-ever in-depth look at the life and art of Man Ray during the decade he spent in Southern California (194150...
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Manuel Ocampo: God Is My Co-Pilot
$ 24.95
Filmed on location in Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, and Sevilla, Spain, God Is My Copilot features the incendiary work of the Philippine-born...
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Manuel Ocampo: Heridas de la Lengua
$ 17.00
One of the most important young artists to have emerged from Los Angeles in the 1990s, Manuel Ocampo updates the tradition of political allegorists...
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Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula
$ 14.95
Dubbed the National Enquirer of the Art World by the New York Post, Coagula Art Journal stands alone among art publications in its iconoclastic, ir...
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Nicholas Lowie and Sheridan Lowrey, [A] Rrose is an apple . . . [Pinspot #14]
$ 9.99
In five short essays, Nicholas Lowie and Sheridan Lowrey begin to articulate a here-to-fore undiscovered theme underlying Marcel Duchamps entire oe...
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Photographing the L.A. Art Scene 1955-1975
$ 35.00
Photographing the L.A. Art Scene is a catalogue celebrating the legendary artists, dealers, and friends who comprised the nucleus of the L.A. art s...
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Picturing Ed: Jerry McMillan's Photographs of Ed Ruscha 1958-1972
$ 15.00
This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition PICTURING ED: JERRY MCMILLANS PHOTOGRAPHS OF ED RUSCHA 1958-1972 at Craig Krull Gal...
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Powder Room presented by The Godfrey Daniels School of Charm
$ 9.99
The Godfrey Daniels School of Charm salutes WACK! MOCA L.A.s retrospective of feminist pioneers, with an act of rebellion entitled: The Powder Room...
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Radiant Spaces: Private Domain [Exhibition Catalogue]
$ 9.95
RADIANT SPACES: PRIVATE DOMAIN presents artists working in the tradition of Art Brut. Jean Dubuffet who coined the term Art Brutin the late 1940s, ...
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Raymond Pettibon: As Always And So On [Zine]
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Limited edition Pettibon zine. Published for the exhibition "5 Stories High: Georganne Deen, Llyn Foulkes, Manuel Ocampo, Raymond Pettibon, Alan Ra...
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Robbie Conal: No Spitting No Kidding [Limited Edition Book]
$ 700.00
In commemoration of Robbie Conals career as both artist and activist, Track 16 Gallery is pleased to present NO SPITTING NO KIDDING a limited editi...
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Robbie Conal: Street Wise: 35 Years of Politically Charged Guerrilla Art
$ 39.99 $ 45.00
Edited by G. James Daichendt , Foreword by Shepard Fairey. The politically charged art of Robbie Conal is gnarled, gut retching and emotionally lad...
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Rub̩en Ortiz Torres: Desmothernismo
$ 15.00
Desmothernismo surveys the work that Ruben Ortiz Torres has produced over the last seven years as hes commuted between the U.S. and Mexico, using d...
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Rub̩n Ortiz Torres: Alien Toyz [Brochure]
$ 9.00
A strange pick up truck that slices itself apart and hydraulically dances its own mechanical ballet has been sighted close to the 10 Freeway. Image...
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Russell Forester: Unauthorized Autobiography
$ 9.99
Unauthorized Autobiography is a thirty-year retrospective of Foresters paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations which looks at his art in...
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Snowflake [Volumes 1, 2 & 3]
$ 18.00
This biannual ski/snowboard zine with a pathological reverence for snow, Snowflake was both homey and uncomfortable, foul-mouthed and good-hearted....
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