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020			_a9781737797975
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _bFlat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No. 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj. _c121924 _d08/08/2025
082			_a708 CHI
100			_aChin, Mel.
245			_aPrimetime Contemporary Art _b: Art by the Gala Committee as Seen on Melrose Place. _c/Mel Chin.
260			_a, Beverly Hills _b: Sotheby's _c, 1998.
300			_a101p. _c: 28cm.
365			_b1998
520			_aOriginally 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. 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.
650			_aContemporary Art
650			_aArt by GALA
650			_aArt
700			_aMel Chin.
942			_cBOOK
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