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Recent Pasts – Art in Southern California from the 1990s to NowSoCCAS Symposium Vol. I

 - Recent Pasts – Art in Southern California from the 1990s to Now
An overview of the Californian art scene from 1990 to the present.
This is the first volume of a symposium-based series organized by the Southern California Consortium of Art Schools [SoCCAS].
Set out in four sections, with a series introduction by SoCCAS chair, John C. Welchman and a topical introduction by cultural critic, Norman Klein, it offers a creative and original overview of the SoCal art scene from 1990 to the present.
"Inside" examines new initiatives from within the institutional or commercial sectors of the art world; "Outside" discusses developments situated outside of this more sanctioned sphere, whether in alternative spaces, art/music crossovers, or the public domain; "New Locations" takes on innovative art-related activities in sites, such as the Southern California deserts and San Diego-Tijuana border that are relatively remote from the culturally dominant LA basin; "Endpapers" rounds out the book with short presentations by five artists and critics whose independent thinking and constructively targeted polemic has helped shape art-world discourse in Southern California in recent years.
John C. Welchman is a professor at the Department of Visual art of University of California, San Diego. His works focuses on modern and contemporary art history and critical theory. His numerous publications include a monograph on Mike Kelley, of which he has also edited the collected writings (MIT Press, Les presses du réel / JRP|Ringier).

In the same series, Institutional Critique and After; Aesthetics of Risk; Black Sphinx: On the Comedic in Modern Art.
Edited by John C. Welchman.
Texts by Connie Butler, Brian Butler, Mike Davis, Frances Stark, Dave Muller, Matthew Coolidge, Diana Thater, Dennis Cooper...
 
published in 2005
English edition
17 x 24 cm (softcover)
160 pages (30 b/w illustrations)
 
20.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-905701-20-3
EAN : 9783905701203
 
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Recent Pasts – Art in Southern California from the 1990s to Now Recent Pasts – Art in Southern California from the 1990s to Now Recent Pasts – Art in Southern California from the 1990s to Now


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