Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980, İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrası Amerikan sanatını yeni bir perspektiften ele alan kapsamlı ve zengin görselli bir başvuru kaynağıdır. Getty Research Institute'un on yılı aşkın araştırmasına dayanan bu öncü çalışma, Güney Kaliforniya'nın 20. yüzyılın en etkili sanat hareketlerindeki belirleyici rolünü ortaya koyar.

This comprehensive, richly illustrated book explores postwar American art from a new perspective: Southern California. The analysis of the L.A. art scene from the end of World War II until the beginning of the 1980s—the first in-depth scholarly survey of the region's art—demonstrates the major role Southern California artists played in the twentieth century's most influential art movements.

Grounded in more than a decade of research, the five chapters augmented by lively sidebars take readers on a tour of an art world in constant formation. The story unfolds through the people, relationships, and ideas that defined the region's artistic production. Photographs and rare materials from the Getty Research Institute and other archives bring the era to life, opening a window onto the emergence of hardedge abstraction, ceramic sculpture, assemblage, pop art, conceptualism, performance art, and avant-garde practices that blurred boundaries and defied labels.

Öne Çıkan Özellikler:

• Los Angeles sanat sahnesinin 1945-1980 dönemi için ilk derinlemesine akademik incelemesi
• Getty Research Institute ve diğer arşivlerden nadir fotoğraflar ve materyaller
• Hardedge soyutlama, seramik heykel, assemblage, pop art, kavramsal sanat ve performans sanatının gelişimi
• Glenn Goldman Award for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles Times, 2012) kazananı
• 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards'ta Fine Art kategorisinde Altın Madalya

The result is an indispensable resource that will fundamentally change the view of modern art in America.