State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970

State of Mind, the lavishly illustrated companion book to the exhibition of the same name, investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art--in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. The essays reveal connections between the northern and southern California Conceptual art scenes and argue that Conceptualism's experimental practices and an array of then-new media--performance, site-specific installations, film and video, mail art, and artists' publications--continue to exert an enormous influence on the artists working today.



Author: Constance M. Lewallen, Karen Moss
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/31/2011
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.46lbs
Size: 9.29h x 9.23w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780520270619

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2012

About the Author
Constance Lewallen is adjunct curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the author of several UC Press titles, including Ant Farm 1968-1978 and A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s. Karen Moss is adjunct curator at the Orange County Museum of Art.