Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 2011-Feb. 13, 2012.
Introduction / Paul Schimmel
Plural isms : California art and artists of the mid- to late 1970s / Peter Frank
Negative affirmative : San Francisco Bay Area art, 1974-1981 / Kristine Stiles
In and out of the studio / Frances Colpitt
A kind of truth / Charles Desmarais
The art of the fugitive in 1970s Los Angeles : runaway self-consciousness / Thomas Crow
Rattlesnake in mailbox : the great unraveling (and a little braiding together) / Rebecca Solnit
Checklist of the exhibition.
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Under the big black sun : California art, 1974-1981. ISBN 9783791351391. Published by Prestel in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
