Main entry:

Rugoff, Ralph, 1957-

Title & Author:

Scene of the crime / Ralph Rugoff ; with contributions by Anthony Vidler and Peter Wollen ; initiated and sponsored by the Fellows of Contemporary Art and organized by UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Published in association with the MIT Press, ©1997.

Description:

165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held in Los Angeles, July 23-Oct. 5, 1997.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, July 23-Oct. 5, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vectors of melancholy / Peter Wollen -- Plates -- More than meets the eye / Ralph Rugoff -- Plates -- The exhaustion of space at the scene of the crime / Anthony Vidler -- Checklist of the Exhibition.

Summary:

Scene of the Crime surveys thirty-five years of West Coast art, investigating aesthetic practices that address the art object as a kind of evidence, a clue to absent meanings and prior actions. From seminal works by Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Barry Le Va, and Vija Celmins to recent works by artists such as Paul McCarthy, James Luna, Anthony Hernandez, and Sharon Lockhart, this art declares that it is about more than meets the eye and raises the suspicion that a significant segment of contemporary art demands a forensic reading.

ISBN:

0262680998 (paperback)
9780262680998 (paperback)

Subject:

Conceptual art California Exhibitions.
Visual communication California Exhibitions.
Crime scene searches in art Exhibitions.
Art conceptuel Californie Expositions.
Communication visuelle Californie Expositions.
Fouilles du lieu d'un crime dans l'art Expositions.
Conceptual art.
Crime scene searches in art.
Visual communication.
Conceptual art United States Exhibitions.
Visual communication United States Exhibitions.
Art conceptuel États-Unis Californie (États-Unis) Catalogues d'exposition.
California.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Vidler, Anthony.
Wollen, Peter.
Fellows of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.
UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221929
Call No.: N6530.C2 R8 1997
Status: Available