Research Catalog

Title

Alex Israel at the Huntington / edited by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell.

Author

Israel, Alex

Publication

• San Marino, CA : The Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens, [2016]
• ©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly.
• Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Description

88 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Deeply entwined with his hometown, the art of Alex Israel (born 1982) explores the iconography of Los Angeles and Hollywood and the cult of celebrity. It posits LA as central to an understanding of American culture and the American dream. This book places 16 of Israel's paintings and sculptures plus two site-specific murals among the works in the historic Huntington Art Gallery. The gallery once served as the residence of Gilded Age collectors Henry and Arabella Huntington and since 1928 has been the home for a celebrated European Art Collection. Intended to spark a dialogue between the new and the old, this intervention of Israel's work within the gallery creates a discourse on place and identity, two things fundamental to understanding Henry Huntington's own love of Southern California. Exhibition: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, USA (12.12.15-11.07.2016).

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subjects

• Israel, Alex > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Alex Israel at The Huntington" held December 12, 2015 - July 11, 2016."

Contents

Foreward and acknowledgements / Kevin Salatino -- Prop shop / Jan Tumlir -- Risky business / Alex Israel interviewed by Kevin Salatino -- Blue boy / Chris Kraus -- Installation views -- List of works.

ISBN

• 9780692527351
• 0692527354

LCCN

2016930860

OCLC

• ocn945950729
• 945950729
• SCSB-5880284

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries