Smart Art Press from Track 16

An illustrated memoir by the TV writer and Track 16 founder. "Hilarious" – Jerry Stahl Softcover. 148 pages. 11 x 8.5 inches. Private edition limited to 400 copies

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Craig Krull Gallery, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Like new copy. Signed by Ruscha on inside cover. First Edition (the only printing). 50 pages, Softcover, 7 x 5.5 inches, 2004. ISBN #1889195529. This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition PICTURING ED: JERRY MCMILLAN'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF ED RUSCHA 1958-1972 at Craig Krull Gallery from May 22-June… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 36 pages, Softcover, 9 x 7 inches, 1998. ISBN #1889195197. Exploring questions of personality and cultural identity, Lewis deSoto fashions site-specific and multimedia works that transport the viewer through layers of time, culture, and experience via elegant and complex networks of language, images, and… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Ram Publications, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 72 pages, Softcover, 10 x 12 inches, 1997. ISBN #0963078542. The creation of seamless illusion without jarring disruptions of cinematic space or time remains the driving tenet of Hollywood cinema. The preservation of this order, called "continuity," is John Divola’s focus in this… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Dryhouse Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 90 pages, Hardcover, 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 1994. ISBN #0963332104. Payne's infamous book based on his CalArts MFA thesis that explored the school's admissions process. He secretly applied to the school under four aliases and documented each one’s journey through the… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 64 pages, Hardcover, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, 1996. ISBN #0964642697. Tatti Wattles is an illustrated fable about the meaning of love. Performance artist Rachel Rosenthal tells of the life and death of Tatti Wattles, her beloved pet rat. Many know Rosenthal as… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 84 pages, Softcover, 4.5 x 6.5 inches, 2007. ISBN #9788493423643. White Wine Press No. 9. . Serkan Ozkaya in a conversation with Willouhgby Sharp looks at the pretensions of the art world and the figure of the successful artist, as seen from Istanbul.. .… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Huntington Beach Art Center, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 64 pages, Softcover, 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, 1998. ISBN #1889195316. Desmothernismo surveys the work that Rubén Ortiz Torres has produced over the last seven years as he's commuted between the U.S. and Mexico, using diverse media to explore the… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 36pages, Softcover, 9 x 6 inches, 2001. Cuban artist Saidel Brito's installation Sobre la felicidad del mayor numero posible (On happiness: in as many ways possible) consists of 82 pieces: 41 portraits of Ecuadorian presidents, and 41 portraits of the children who participated in… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 286 pages, Softcover, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches, 1995. ISBN #0964642611. Twelve artists and twenty-one writers of Chicano, Irish, and Mexican heritage tackle the issue of how to mount an effective front against the dominant cultures around them in… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 36, Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 2008. In Spanish, the word “mondongo” means tripe, or the lining of a cow’s stomach. The word “Mondongo” is also a stew we love, and we are like three witches stirring it up in a cauldron: revolving and… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 36 pages, Softcover, 9 x 7 inches, 1997. ISBN #1889195111. The work of Georganne Deen is a veritable landscape of trauma. Projected through a lens of adolescence—one that amplifies the fears, insecurities, and longings of the human psyche to monumental proportions—the work represents… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1995. First Edition. New. New copy. First Edition. 16 x 20 inches, 1995. CHAIN REACTION - CHECKLIST. An Abbreviated Survey of Idea-Based Art. Curated By Steven Leiber. October 6, 1995 - December 22, 1995. Chain Reaction is an exhibit that examines the line of descent beginning with Picasso's Cubist experiments in the 1920s and extends… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 84 pages, Softcover, 4.5 x 6.5 inches, 2007. ISBN #9788493423636. White Wine Press No. 8. . Art & Language proposes a scathing answer to what they see as a deliberately misinformed and vicious attack by a woman critic, Rosalind Krauss, who misreads not only… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2000. 3rd printing. Softcover. New. New copy. 3rd printing. 64 pages, Softcover, 7 x 6 3/4 inches, 2000. ISBN #188919512x. This jewel-like book documents Kitchen and Back Yard, Lou’s extravagant domestic environments made entirely of tiny glass beads—millions of them! In Kitchen, the walls, floors, stove, refrigerator, cabinets, tables, dishes, water in the… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 68 pages, Softcover, 4.5 x 6.5 inches, 2010. ISBN #9788461427772. White Wine Press No. 12. . Antonio Eligio Fernandez (Tonel) looks at Cuban Cinema produced during the golden period of the Revolution and the ways in which it chose to portray the city of… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 200 pages, Softcover, 9 x 7 inches, 1998. ISBN #1889195162. Dubbed "the National Enquirer of the Art World" by the New York Post, Coagula Art Journal stands alone among art publications in its iconoclastic, irreverent commentary on the New York and Los Angeles art… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 36 pages, Softcover, 8 7/8 x 6 inches, 1998. The work of Rob Craigie explores the interface between nature, technology, and humanity. His "Drawing Experiments" series, from which this Pinspot is taken, poses the creative process as an eccentric metaphor for the scientific process.… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 120 pages, Softcover, 10 x 7 inches, 1996. ISBN #0964642662. Of the work and ideas of Daniel J. Martinez, Peter Sellars has said: "[He is] one of the most important and articulate artists of his generation. Impossible to pin down, a genuinely free… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Plug In, 1998. 2nd printing. Softcover. New. New copy. 2nd printing. 124 pages, Softcover, 10 1/2 x 9 inches, 1998. ISBN #0921381131. Featuring collages, assemblages, drawings, facsimile texts, and never-before-seen photographs, Beck and Al Hansen: Playing with Matches examines the artistic relationship between Grammy-winning musician Beck and his grandfather Happenings/Fluxus artist Al Hansen. Al… Read more about this item