"Views from Lookout Mountain is the first book to survey the films and visual art works of one of Los Angeles' most exceptional artists and film-makers. It locates Pat O'Neill's masterful films in a visual arts context, where the works can be most fully appreciated as powerful projections of temporal painting, aural composition and visual poetry. Views from Lookout Mountain features color film stills, reproductions of O'Neill's visual ar ..."
"HardCover. Pub Date :2013-10-01 Pages: 192 Language: English Publisher: Skira Rizzoli Adam Silverman is the face of a new generation of artists focused on ceramics and pottery. a medium that has not had major presence in the contemporary art world for many years. Incorporating traditional pottery techniques with his own experimental approach. Silverman creates works that are sensual. gritty. and beautiful. He uses unique glazes to give ..."
"Over the past two decades, Los Angeles-based artist Connie Samaras (born 1950) has used photography and video--as well as writing, teaching and political activism--to explore the aspirations and anxieties of the imagined future through depictions of built environments that she calls “speculative landscapes.” Dealing with the paradoxes of these surreal environments--vast, impersonal constructions such as the cities of Las Vegas and Dubai ..."
"This book is published to accompany the first major retrospective in the UK of the visual art of the pioneering American composer and artist John Cage (1912-1992), and is lavishly illustrated with full colour plates of his drawings, watercolours and prints. The use of chance operations, in particular the Chinese Book of Changes, or I Ching, was central to Cage's compositional method and his approach to visual art. In his series Where R= ..."