Product Description: At first glance, a casual observer might assume that Norman Lundin's recent paintings are about things. That would be a mistake. Instead, silence and space form a void that is shaped and manipulated by the things that displace it and defined by the light and atmosphere captured in its gravitational field...read more

Product Description: One of the premier sculptors of her generation in the Northwest, Hilda Morris (1911-1993) lived her artistic life in the center of the region's circle of avant-garde painters, sculptors, poets, and musicians. This is the first book to document her half-century-long career and presents Morris's highly individual abstract sculptures against the backdrop of artistic developments during the second half of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: The first comprehensive overview of the paintings, drawings, prints, and sketchbooks of Lobdell, San Francisco Bay area teacher and important figure in the development of West Coast abstract expressionist painting.

Amazon.com Review: For four decades after he wrote his first article in 1939, Clement Greenberg was a highly influential art critic whose support was decisive in the acceptance of abstract expressionism. In the early '80s, when most critics and academics had come to believe that art was a point of departure for theoretical constructs, Greenberg aroused deep hostility by continuing to focus on the formal elements of painting and sculpture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This beautiful retrospective monograph surveys the career of the leading artist of Southern California Minimalism. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 1999 Orange County Museum of Art Biennial features 10 emerging California artists including Kim Anno, Kevin Appel, Ingrid Calame, Steven Criqui, Jacci Den Hartog, Michelle Fierro, Jeremy Kidd, Laurie Reid, Tim Rogeberg, and Kathryn Spence...read more

Product Description: Curated by Bruce Guenther, The Essential Gesture, juxtaposes contemporary artist s use of the human body in the post-1945 period with a small selection of early modern masterworks to establish a context for that activity and its interpretation...read more

Presents portraits and sample works of each painter and sculptor