{"product_id":"state-of-mind-9780520270619","title":"State of Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvestigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art - in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. This book includes the essays revealing connections between the northern and southern California Conceptual art scenes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A pleasure... The curators have written short, elucidating comments for almost everything here, about 150 items. Not only do their words bring individual images to life; but they also add up to an absorbing narrative of a place and an era.\" -- Holland Cotter New York Times \"Provocative... Puts pressure on the category of idea-based art through a focus on the body, ritual, media and the social world.\" -- Gillian Young Art in America \"While showing a real breadth, and the consistency of various sorts of conceptual thinking, [State of Mind is] in fact very useful in terms of ways in which an artist could reinvent their congenial mediums to express social, political, as well as artistic concerns.\" -- Phong Bui The Brooklyn Rail \"Will leave [locals] ... wondering how they failed to notice so much provocative activity - a lot of it very public - when it occurred.\" San Francisco Chronicle \"Constance Lewallen and Karen Moss take advantage of [the] outsider position, making use of art's ability to conjure or invent new meanings and contexts.\" -- Maika Pollack Gallerist NY \"Makes for conceptual art's continued influence on contemporary art.\" Public Art Review \"Informative and well written.\" Orange County Register","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402853884247,"sku":"9780520270619","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520270619.jpg?v=1730481686","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/state-of-mind-9780520270619","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}