# 14

Pacific Standard Time:  Art in LA 1945-1980

Wednesday – 10:00  A.M.                                   Winter 2012 (14 Weeks)
Coordinator:  Bill Clarkson                                Co-Coordinator:  Dick Heiser

Course Description
Over the next six months 60 museums in Southern California will participate in a survey of mid-century art making in LA and the surrounding area.  This SDG will conduct an examination of the major exhibitions and how they reflect the time and social temperament   which they represent.  Individuals will each visit 2  selected shows and present their experience, critique  and background notes on the culture of that ethnic group or discipline.  Personal points of view are encouraged. Note; this SDG will require some independent local travel to various museums.

Topics:

1. An Overview  of Life and Art in Southern California from 1945 to 1980 and a review of the Light and Space exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, at Pepperdine University                             (ends 12/04/11), Possible tour of the collection in Brentwood.
3. Norton Simon Museum of Art, Printmaking and the Tamarind workshop       (ends 04/02/12) and the Pasadena Museum of Art, Abject expressionism:         1945-1980 (ends 05/20/12).
4. Los Angeles County Museum, LACMA, California Design, 1930- 1965 (ends 03/25/12) and the A+D Architecture and Design Museum (ends 01/16/12).  Also, the MAK center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House (ends 01/08/12)
5. Japanese-American National Museum-Design and Activism in post war LA (ends 02/19/12).
6. Fowler Museum, Mapping Another LA: The Chicano Art Movement (ends 2/26/12) and Museum of Latin American Art  MOLAA – MEX/LA: “Mexican” Modernism in Los Angeles, 1930-1985 (ends 1/29/12)
7. Chinese American Museum- Breaking Ground: Chinese-American Architects in LA,1945-1980 (ends 06/03/112) and Vincent Price Art Museum, East L.A. College-‘round the clock: Chinese-American Artists Working in Los Angeles                   (ends 04/21/12)
8. Hammer Museum, Now Dig This!, Art and Black L.A.1960-1980 (ends 01/08/12) California African American Museum CAAM, Places of validation, Art and progression (ends 04/12/12).
9. Museum of Contempoary Art MOCA at the Geffen- Under The Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 (ends 02/13/12)
10. Los Angeles Film Forum-Experimental Film in L.A., 1945-1980 (ends 05/12/12)  and MOCA, Grand Ave. Naked Hollywood: Wegee in Los Angeles (ends 02/27/12)
11. CalArts/REDCAT- The experimental Impulse (ends 01/15/12) and ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives; Queer Art and Culture in L.A., 1945-1980 Wink Wink (ends 04/01/12)
12. Otis School of Art and Design, Doin’ it in Public: Feminisim and Art at rthe Women’s Building (ends 01/28/12) and Santa Monica Museum of Art- Beatrice Wood: Career Woman-Drawings, Paintings, Vessels and Objects
    
13. Laguna Art Museum- Best Kept Secret: UCI and the development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971 (ends 01/22/12)
    
14. The Getty Center- Pacific Standard Time, Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture (ends 02/05/12)

Bibliography
Core Book;  PST Cross currents in LA Painting and Sculpture
Getty Publications, 2011, available on Amazon.com (37- no tax, no shipping)
Sunshine Muse, by Peter Plaven,
University of California 1979,2000
Clark, Robin, Ed., Phenomenal: California Light space surface
University of California 2011
Perchuk, Andrew and Singh, Rani, 
Drohojowska-Philp , Hunter  Rebels in Paradise, Heny Holt, 2011

Pre-Meeting:  TBD