Primetime Contemporary Art (Record no. 66009)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781737797975
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name International Book Distributors
Distributor address Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No. 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj.
Bill Number 121924
Bill Date 08/08/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 708 CHI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chin, Mel.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Primetime Contemporary Art
Remainder of title : Art by the Gala Committee as Seen on Melrose Place.
Statement of responsibility, etc /Mel Chin.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Beverly Hills
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Sotheby's
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1998.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 101p.
Dimensions : 28cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 1998
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Originally published in a limited run in 1998, Primetime Contemporary Art documented In the Name of the Place, a radical two-year intervention by a group of artists, initiated by Mel Chin and known as the GALA Committee, on the primetime television show Melrose Place. This extremely rare artist’s book is reproduced for the first time as a facsimile edition.<br/>The artists comprising the GALA Committee worked with the producers of Melrose Place to develop a series of political works that were used as props and plot devices across two seasons of the show, providing surreptitious commentary on reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS, the Gulf War, domestic terrorism, corporate malfeasance and substance abuse. Some of these topics were banned by the FCC at the time, and the group’s works allowed for the artists and the show to create political commentary that went unnoticed by censors. The artworks they produced were exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 1997 and then sold at an auction at Sotheby’s to support several charities. Primetime Contemporary Art was created by Mel Chin and Helen Nagge as a mock auction catalog documenting the artwork made for the show and the conceptual framework of the GALA Committee.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Contemporary Art
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Art by GALA
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Art
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mel Chin.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Books
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 19/08/2025 International Book Distributors 1998.00   708 CHI 31006 19/08/2025 19/08/2025 Books
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