Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A . recordings, 2008-2012

Summary

Creators:

California Institute of the Arts, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Vincent Price Art Museum, USC Fisher Museum of Art, California African-American Museum, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Films by Alexa Oona Schulz (Firm), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Gallery), Getty Research Institute, Getty Foundation, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Los Angeles (Calif.). Cultural Affairs Department, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Armory Center for the Arts, Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.), Getty Foundation, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles Filmforum (Firm), Orange County Museum of Art (Calif.), 18th Street Arts Complex, Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Museum of Art, and Pacific Standard Time (Project)

Abstract:

The collection principally comprises recordings produced from 2008 through 2012 as part of the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. project. Project participants, including the Getty itself, conducted an extensive series of oral histories with many of Los Angeles' key artists, filmmakers, curators, collectors, and critics, focusing on postwar art (1945-1980). Many of the participating cultural institutions received funding from the Getty Foundation, which collected the resulting interviews. Exhibitions put on by the partner institutions and discussions with the their curators were documented by the Getty Research Institute, through a contract with Tremolo Productions. Material also includes transcripts of interviews; recordings of lectures, symposia, and panel discussions; short documentary films; and printed brochures and announcements related to the project.

Extent:

13.65 Linear Feet (32 boxes and 50 enclosures: printed material, 1 hard drive, 26 video tapes, 276 optical discs, 30 digital files, 282.6 TB)

Language:

English and English

Preferred citation:

[Cite the item and series (as appropriate)], Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. Recordings, 2008-2012, Getty Research Institute and Getty Foundation. The Getty Research Institute. IA40011.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifaia40011

Background

Scope and content:

The collection principally comprises audio and video recordings produced from 2008 through 2012 as part of the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. project (PST). Material also includes transcripts of interviews; recordings of lectures, symposia, and panel discussions; short documentary films; and printed brochures and announcements related to the project.

The materials in the first series principally comprise oral history interviews conducted by PST partner institutions from 2008 through 2012. Project organizers conducted an extensive series of oral histories with many of Los Angeles' key artists, filmmakers, curators, collectors, and critics. Many of the participating organizations were awarded funds by the Getty Foundation, which received the resulting interviews as part of the grant requirement.

Materials in the second series principally comprise 2008-2012 audiovisual recordings of oral history interviews, public conversations, symposia, lectures, and recorded exhibition content created/initiated by the Getty as part of its PST initiative. The Getty Research Institute recorded the majority of these interviews and events to document and preserve the art historical record of Los Angeles from 1945 to 1980. A few short audio clips were also conducted for inclusion in a 2011-2012 exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Crosscurrents in L.A.: Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970. The clips were intended for public visitors to enjoy while they viewed corresponding works in the exhibition.

Materials in the third series comprise audio and videos produced by Tremolo Productions, which was commissioned by the Getty Research Institue to visually capture the exhibitions at PST partner institutions across Southern California and conduct interviews of their curators, institutional leaders, and exhibiting artists.

Biographical / historical:

The Getty Research Institute (GRI) is an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, a not-for-profit educational, cultural and philanthropic organization dedicated to the visual arts. Originally established in 1983 as the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (GCHAH), the objective of the GCHAH was to foster advanced research in art, its history, diversity, and meaning in culture by engaging scholars from various disciplines in the humanities. In 1996, in order to avoid confusion with the soon-to-open Getty Center campus in Brentwood, the GCHAH was renamed the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities and in 2000, the program's name was shortened to the Getty Research Institute (GRI).

The GRI's mission is to further knowledge and advance understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through advanced research and scholarship, and through its activities and resources, provide a unique environment for research, critical inquiry, and scholarly exchange. The GRI's Research Library, consisting of over one million books, periodicals, study photographs, auction catalogs and special collections of rare and unique materials, as well as online resources and databases, serve an international community of scholars and the interested public. The GRI also provides intellectual leadership through its research projects, exhibitions, and publication programs and provides service to a wide range of scholars worldwide through residencies, fellowships, hosted lectures and symposia, and its innovative digital reference tools. Through all of its programs and activities, the GRI endeavors to provide resources, expertise, and a collaborative environment for art-historical research and publication.

Through the GRI's multidisciplinary programming, first from the department of Contemporary Programs and Research and later, its successor, the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art (DACA), the GRI worked to advance art history scholarship of contemporary art, including sound art, audiovisual documentation of personal art, experimental music, and dance as well as a focus on the birth of video as an artistic medium around the world.

The Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 project is rooted in a Getty Research Institute DACA initiative called Modern Art in Los Angeles that began in 2002 with the goal to recover the historical record of art in Southern California. Around 2009, the J. Paul Getty Trust recognized the potential of Modern Art in Los Angeles to expand beyond the Getty Research Institute, and in 2011, created an initiative branded and trademarked as Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.

Fueled by a series of Getty grants, the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 initiative grew into a region-wide collaboration between more than 60 cultural institutions, culminating in a series of exhibitions and events from October 2011 to April 2012 across Southern California called Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. In addition to exhibitions and events, over 40 publications documenting Los Angeles' impact on art history during the postwar years were created and dozens of traveling and related exhibitions were held all over the world, resulting in unprecedented international press attention focused on the history of art in Los Angeles.

A series of public programs were offered as a part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 that included lectures, symposia, performance art, theater, concerts, readings, film screenings, oral histories, and public conversations in which leading artists, filmmakers, musicians, curators, and critics discussed their contributions to Los Angeles' vibrant postwar art scene.

Four Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 exhibitions were held at the Getty:

Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970 (co-sponsored by the GRI and the J. Paul Getty Museum); Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950–1980 (sponsored by the GRI); From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine's Gray Column (sponsored by the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum); In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980 (sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum).

View Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 inititiave and exhibitions website online

Processing information:

Upon review of event transfer documentation and other internal programmatic documents, it was determined that the Modern Art in Los Angeles artist oral histories and public events were not Pacific Standard Time materials and were removed from this collection and added to the Modern Art in Los Angeles Recordings collection (finding aid IA40018) by Helen Kim in 2020. Those accessions processed and originally described in this finding aid were accessions 2012.IA.066, 2012.IA.082, 2012.IA.083, 2012.IA.084, 2012.IA.085, 2012.IA.086, 2012.IA.089, 2012.IA.092, 2012.IA.093, 2012.IA.094, 2012.IA.095, 2012.IA.096, 2012.IA.097, 2012.IA.098, 2012.IA.099, 2012.IA.100, 2012.IA.101, 2012.IA.102, 2012.IA.103, 2012.IA.104, 2012.IA.105, 2012.IA.106, 2012.IA.107, 2012.IA.108, 2012.IA.109, 2012.IA.110, 2012.IA.111, 2012.IA.112, 2012.IA.113, 2012.IA.114, 2012.IA.115, 2012.IA.116, 2012.IA.117, 2012.IA.119, 2012.IA.120, 2012.IA.121, and 2012.IA.122.

Arrangement:

Records are organized into three series: Series I. Getty Foundation funded Pacific Standard Time oral histories, 2008-2012; Series II. Getty produced Pacific Standard Time audio recordings, 2011; and Series III. Audiovisual documentation of Pacific Standard Time partner institution exhibitions, 2008-2012.

Physical location:

To access physical materials at the Getty, go to the library catalog record for this collection and click "Request an Item." Click here for general library access policy. See the Administrative Information section of this finding aid for access restrictions specific to the records described below. Please note, some of the records may be stored off site; advanced notice is required for access to these materials.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the people, programs, and subjects covered by the records. The listing is not exhaustive.

Getty Research Institute Modern Art in Los Angeles recordings, 2003-2011. The Getty Research Institute. IA40018.

Getty Research Institute Pacific Standard Time: Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 exhibition oral history interviews, 2011-2012. The Getty Research Institute. IA40025.

Getty Research Institute Cool School oral history recordings, 2005-2006. The Getty Research Institute. IA40027.

Getty Research Institute California Video exhibition project files and oral history recordings, 2006-2008. The Getty Research Institute. IA60004.

Woman's Building records, 1960-2016, undated, The Getty Research Institute. Accession no. 2017.M.43.

Getty Research Institute Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 Administrative Project Files, 2003, 2008-2013, undated. The Getty Research Institute. IA60006. This finding aid is restricted to Getty staff only.

Getty Research Institute Project and Development Specialist Karen Stokes Records, 1987-2017, undated (bulk 1992-2017). The Getty Research Institute. IA60009. This finding aid is restricted to Getty staff only.

Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980. Edited by Rebecca Peabody, Andrew Perchuk, Glenn Phillips, and Rani Singh. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.

California Video: Artists and Histories. Edited by Glenn Phillips. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008.

Other descriptive data:

Some of the recordings have been described in more detail in individual library catalog records. For additional information on a particular event, search the Getty Research Institute Library Catalog by event name, participant name, keyword, or by the topical collection title "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980 collection (Getty Research Institute)."

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Artists -- Political activity -- Los Angeles -- California -- 20th century
Art and social action -- United States -- 20th century
Feminism in art -- United States -- 20th century
Art -- Political aspects -- United States -- 20th century
Social movements in art -- United States -- 20th century
Artists and community -- California -- 20th century
Community art projects -- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- 20th century
Ceramics -- 20th century -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- California
Ceramics -- California -- 20th century -- History
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Experimental films -- United States
Japanese American artists -- United States -- 20th century
Women artists -- United States -- 20th century
Asian American art -- United States -- 20th century
Art museums -- Exhibitions -- United States
African American artists -- United States -- 20th century
Art, American -- 20th century -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Artists -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century
Chinese American artists -- United States -- 20th century
Artists -- United States -- Interviews
Video art -- California -- Los Angeles
Performance art -- United States -- 20th century
African American art -- United States -- 20th century
Video art -- United States -- 20th century
Conceptual Art -- United States -- 20th century
Feminism and art -- United States -- 20th century
Documentaries (motion picture genre)
Electronic documents
Oral histories (document genres)
Sound recordings
Transcripts
Video recordings

Names:

Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History
18th Street Arts Complex
American Museum of Ceramic Art
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Armory Center for the Arts
California African-American Museum
Los Angeles (Calif.). Cultural Affairs Department
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Gallery)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles Filmforum (Firm)
Orange County Museum of Art (Calif.)
Otis College of Art and Design
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Museum of Art
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery
UCLA Film and Television Archive

Places:

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century

Restrictions:

Detailed restrictions may be found at the appropriate places throughout this inventory.

The following types of records are permanently closed: records containing personal information, records that compromise security or operations, legal communications, legal work product, and records related to donors. The J. Paul Getty Trust reserves the right to restrict access to any records held by the Institutional Archives.

Terms of access:

Contact Library Rights and Reproductions at the Getty Research Institute for copyright information and permission to publish.

Preferred citation:

[Cite the item and series (as appropriate)], Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. Recordings, 2008-2012, Getty Research Institute and Getty Foundation. The Getty Research Institute. IA40011.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifaia40011

Location of this collection:

Getty Research Institute, Institutional Archives

1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100

Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688, US

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(310) 440-7390

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