The Department of 20th Century Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art = = needs to borrow (or purchase if necessary) unbound issues of the following = = periodical issues for a major exhibition which will run at LACMA from = February 23 through May 11, 1997. (See details below)=2a=2aThe exhibition = will = travel to the Mus=e9e des Beaux Arts de Montr=e9al from 6/19/97 - 9/7/97 a= nd to = the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin from 10/9/97 - 1/4/98. We have been unabl= e = to locate single unbound issues of the following titles and are hoping to = avoid having bound volumes inaccessible to our staff for that length of = time. The museum is willing to provide an official loan contract if = required: Please respond to: Deborah Barlow Smedstad = (dbarlow=40art.lacma.org / (213)857-6122) if you have any of these availabl= e: Art Digest, Volume 13, no. 2, (October 15, 1938) =22 =22 Volume 16, no. 1(January 1, 1942) =22 =22 Volume 17, (April 15, 1943) ArtNews, Volume 40, part 2 (November 1-14, 1941) =22 =22 Volume 44 (August, 1945) Magazine of Art, Volume 29, no. 4 (April, 1936) =2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a= =2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a= =2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a= =2a = =2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a=2a Exiles and Emigr=e9s: The Flight of European Artists f= rom = Hitler February 23 - May 11, 1997= Immediately following the 1933 rise to power of the National Socialists in = = Germany, there was unleashed an unprecedented forced migration of thousands= = of professionals within and, in many cases, ultimately out of Europe. This = = major exhibition will focus on the work of 23 well-known painters, = sculptors, photographers, and architects in exile during the 12 years of = Nazi rule. It will examine the impact of their emigration and the = circumstances of their exile. The first section of the show focuses on the wave of migration of German and Austrian artists who = sought refuge in the European capitals of Paris, London, and Amsterdam, = featuring the work of Vasily Kandinsky, Max Beckmann, John Heartfield, Kurt= = Schwitters, and Oskar Kokoschka. The central part of the exhibition will be= = devoted to the work of those artists who, after the 1930s, fled to America,= = including Fernand L=e9ger, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Marc Chagall, and Matta = as = well as architects Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe. Th= e = exhibition will attempt to explore the responses to these artists and their= = work in the United States. It will include 130 paintings, sculptures, = photographs, and graphics=3b 200 documents, posters, letters, and ephemera=3b= = architectural reconstructions and models=3b and a specially commissioned = 15-minute film on American immigration policy. The exhibition will be = designed by the internationally renown architect Frank O. Gehry. Credit line: This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum= = of Art. It was funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the= = Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Helen and Peter Bing. Curators: Stephanie Barron, vice president of education and public programs= = at LACMA, with the assistance of Sabine Eckmann, exhibition associate Catalogue: Exiles and Emigr=e9s: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler= , = by Stephanie Barron with contributions by several international scholars=3b= = copublished by LACMA and Harry N. Abrams, New York=3b approx. 400 pp.=3b 12= 5 = illus. in color, 260 illus. in black and white=3b softbound =2435, hardboun= d =2475 = at the LACMA museum shop. Upcoming venues: Mus=e9e des Beaux Arts de Montr=e9al 6/19/97 - 9/7/97 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 10/9/97 - 1/4/98