Santa Monica Museum of Art
Publications
 
To make an inquiry or to purchase an exhibition catalog, please call 310.586.6488 x10 or email info@smmoa.org. There is a $9 shipping fee through standard mail, but sales tax is not charged for purchases made out of state. Purchases can be made in advance with a check or via fax using Visa, Mastercard, or American Express. Please allow 10 to 14 days for shipping.
Michael Asher
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2008
Foreword: Elsa Longhauser. Essay: Miwon Kwon, "Support and Decoration: Michael Asher’s Critique of the Architecture of Display." Soft cover, full-color fold out cover and 4 gate folds, 48 pages plus color photographs by Grant Mudford. $35.
William Pope.L: Art After White People: Time, Trees, & Celluloid…
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2007
Lisa Melandri. Foreword: Elsa Longhauser. Interview: William Pope.L and Lisa Melandri, "Ritual, Archive, and Repetition." Essays: Wade Graham, "A Forest of Symbols," Lauri Firstenberg, "Let’s open a Few Cans of Worms, Whoop-Ass, and Wonder." Soft-cover, full-color illustrations, 40 pages. $25
Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006
Michael R. Taylor and Lisa Melandri. Foreword: Elsa Longhauser, Essays: Lisa Melandri, "Setting the Stage for de Chirico’s Impact: Philip Guston, Lorser Feitelson, and Los Angeles in the 1930s," Michael R. Taylor, "Enigma Variations: Reconsidering the ‘Late’ Work of Giorgio de Chirico and Philip Guston." 26 color plates, black and white illustrations, and exhibition checklist. Soft-cover, 64 pages. $30
Àlvaro Siza/Architect: Drawings, Models, Photographs
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006
Foreword: Elsa Longhauser. Essay: Jean-Louis Cohen, "Architectural Dialogs." Àlvaro Siza, project descriptions. Soft–cover, 40 pages, black-and-white photographs, drawings and illustrations. $20.
Dark Places
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006
Foreword: Elsa Longhauser. Essays: Joshua Decter, "Dark Places: A Phantasmagoria of Multiple Looped Curatorial Scripts"; servo: David Erdman, Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karlsson & Chris Perry, "Dark Places: Architecture In_Formation". Exhibition Map and Illustrated Exhibition Checklist. Soft-cover, 20 pages, full-color illustrations. $20.
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle
Santa Monica Museum of Art and DAP, 2005
Edited by Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna. Foreword: Elsa Longhauser. Introduction and Acknowledgments: Michael Duncan. Essays: Michael Duncan, "Semina as Art" and "Semina Contents;" Stephen Fredman, "Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: Wallace Berman and the Semina Poets;" Kristine McKenna, "Wallace Berman and Photography." Artist Biographies: Michael Duncan, Kristine McKenna, and Raymond Foye. Chronology, Exhibition Checklist, and Index. Hard-cover, 384 pages, full-color illustrations. $50.
George Herms: Hot Set
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2005
Booklet and DVD in stamped paper bag
Booklet: Foreword and Acknowledgments: Elsa Longhauser, Executive Director, SMMoA. Transcribed Interview/Discussion: "George Herms: The Bricoleur of Broken Dreams... One More Once," George Herms and Walter Hopps, conducted and edited by Anne Doran. Biographies and Checklist of the Exhibition. Soft cover, black and white, 16 pages. DVD: Hot Set. Produced by George Herms, Wilder Herms and Guglielmo Cuellar. Narrator: George Herms. Running time: 62 minutes. $20 including tax
Pat O'Neill: View from Lookout Mountain
Santa Monica Museum of Art
and Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2004
Forewords: Elsa Longhauser; Introduction and Acknowledgments: Julie Lazar. Essays: Paul Arthur, "Permanent Transit: The Films of Pat O'Neill;" John G. Hanhardt, "A Conversation with Pat O'Neill;" Howard Singerman, "The Persistence of Pat O' Neill;" Erika Suderburg, "Pat O'Neill and the Western Precipice: An Elemental Table of Objects and the Events That Enfold Them." Collaborative Project: Pat O' Neill and Michael Worthington. Chronology, Filmography, and Exhibition Checklist. Hard-cover, 240 pages, full-color illustrations. $60.
Parrot Talk:
A Retrospective of Works by Kim MacConnel
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2003
Foreword and Acknowledgements: Elsa Longhauser, Executive Director, SMMoA. Essays: Kim MacConnel, "Excerpt from transcript of: Carrying Content Through the Decorative,Therein Lies the Irony;" Michael Duncan, "Kim MacConnel: Fabrics R Us;" Amy Goldin, "Kim MacConnel at Holly Soloman," "Patterns, Grids, and Painting," and "Unpublished Essay on Rugs;" Robert Kushner, "Amy Goldin." Selected exhibition history and bibliography. Soft–cover, 48 pages, full color illustrations. $25.
Rosamond Purcell:Two Rooms
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2003
Foreword: Elsa Longhauser, Executive Director, SMMoA. Acknowledgements: Lisa Melandri, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs, SMMoA. Essays: Lisa Melandri, "About Appearance: The Work of Rosamond Purcell;" Katharine Park, "Bringing Nature Inside;" Robert McCracken Peck, "Two Rooms: A Collector’s Vision;" Rosamond Purcell, "Enticing Shadow, Elusive Form." Selected exhibition history and bibliography. Soft–cover, 48 pages, color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. $25.


back to top