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Los Angeles to New York : Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971

Title
Los Angeles to New York : Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971 / James Meyer, with Paige Rozanski and Virginia Dwan.
Publication
Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Chicago ; London : in association with the University of Chicago Press, [2016]

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408 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
Virginia Dwan, founder of leading avant-garde galleries in Los Angeles and New York between 1959 and 1971, was a major force in an art world made increasingly mobile by commercial jets and the interstate highway system. New York artists Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, and Claes Oldenburg, along with the Los Angeles-based Edward Kienholz, were among those who had shows in Dwan's Westwood gallery. A keen follower of the Parisian art scene, Dwan also gave Yves Klein and Martial Raysse their American debuts. Her 1962 group show My Country 'Tis of Thee is among the earliest exhibitions of pop art. Dwan supported artists who challenged the limits of art's status as both object and commodity and who eventually developed an art sited outside the gallery in remote locations in the American West. If the Los Angeles gallery featured abstract expressionism, neo-Dada, and pop, the New York branch broke ground with brilliant presentations of minimalism (10, 1966), conceptual art (Language II-IV, 1968-1970), and land art featuring the work of Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and others (Earthworks, 1968). Dwan sponsored iconic earthworks such as Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Michael Heizer's Double Negative, Walter De Maria's 35-Pole Lightning Field, and Charles Ross's Star Axis. This is the storied history of the Dwan Gallery told by an astute scholar of modern art, the gallerist herself, and a meticulous researcher.
Alternative Title
Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971
Subject
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • History.
Note
  • "The exhibition Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971 is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington"--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-396) and index.
Contents
Forewords, Washington and Los Angeles -- Note to the Reader -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- The Art Gallery in an Era of Mobility / James Meyer -- Plates -- Writings / Virginia Dwan -- Virginia Dwan Chronology / Paige Rozanski -- Exhibition History: Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles and New York / Paige Rozanski -- Checklist of Works in the Exhibition -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography.
Call Number
N8660.D87
ISBN
  • 9780226425108 (cloth)
  • 022642510X (cloth)
LCCN
2016028114
OCLC
952226529
Title
Los Angeles to New York : Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971 / James Meyer, with Paige Rozanski and Virginia Dwan.
Publisher
Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Chicago ; London : in association with the University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-396) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Dwan, Virginia.
Rozanski, Paige.
Meyer, James Sampson, 1962- Art gallery in an era of mobility.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.), issuing body.
University of Chicago. Press, issuing body.
Sudoc No.
SI 8.2:D 96
Research Call Number
*R-ART N8660.D87 L67 2016
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