LACMA Launches Online Reading Room

This is a special announcement from the library at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

LACMA recently announced the launch of its Reading Room (www.lacma.org/readingroom), an online space devoted to the presentation of the museum’s publications. In an effort to make books available that are otherwise difficult to access, the initial group focuses on out-of-print offerings and features ten catalogs highlighting the development of the Los Angeles art scene including:

Six Painters and the Object. Lawrence Alloway. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1963.

Six More. Lawrence Alloway. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1963.

New York School: The First Generation, Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Maurice Tuchman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965.

Edward Kienholz. Maurice Tuchman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966.

Robert Irwin Kenneth Price. Maurice Tuchman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966.

Late Fifties at the Ferus. James Monte. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968.

Billy Al Bengston. James Monte. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968.

A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967–1971. Maurice Tuchman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971.

Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties. Maurice Tuchman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.

The Museum as Site: Sixteen Projects. Stephanie Barron. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.


The museum intends to launch another group of catalogs this spring.

Brand Library owns all but two of these catalogs and several must be used in the library. Take a look at the online versions and stop by Brand Library if you want to see the actual catalogs!