Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader
Artist(s)/Author(s)
Format
City Produced/Published
Los Angeles
Publisher
Donors
Reference # ST.39105.MO
LocationStacks
Acquisition Date1/28/2025
Collections
Go to Collection
Title | Artist | Acquired |
|---|---|---|
| Articulate Your Desire | 03/07/2025 | |
| Re vista #1 | Macarena Hernandez Estrada | 03/07/2025 |
| Sashiko | emi kuriyama | 03/07/2025 |
| NEXTDOOREBONY | 03/07/2025 | |
| Carl Andre Ana Mendieta Hunter And My Tits | 03/07/2025 | |
| Instructions [arm gallery] | Benny Reiss, John Burtle | 03/04/2025 |
| Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Douglas Lee, Stephanie Hutin, Karen Lofgren, Liz Glynn, Emily Lacy, Joshua Beckman, Casey Rentz, Corey Fogel, Anthony McCann, Matthew Au, Takeshi Murata, Walter Kitundu, Douglas Repetto, Joshua Beckman, Carmina Escobar, Michael Deragon, Clay Chaplin, Walter Kitundu, Cheryl Chambras, Christy McCaffrey, Dougles Lee, Lewis Keller, Jason Torchinsky, Ryan Taber, Laura Steenberge, Jewl Mosteller, Carlin Wing, Charles Pohl, Kamau Patton, Emily Lacy, Michael O'Malley, Jason Brown | 03/04/2025 |
| Municipal de Fútbol | Michael Wells, Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Maghen | 03/04/2025 |
| Inserts | Richard Prince, Carrie Mae Weems, Nancy Linn, Julie Ault, Barbara Kruger, Hans Haacke, Louise Lawler, Barbara Kruger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mike Glier, Doug Ashford, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Spero | 03/04/2025 |
| The Reader | Fritz Haeg, Nikhil Murthy | 03/04/2025 |
| [untitled] | Brendan Fowler | 03/04/2025 |
| Now Time | Steve Fagin, Vija Celmins, Miyoshi Barosh, Danae Falliers, Lisa Krohn, David Rattray, Joe Coleman, Thaddeus Strode, Manuel Landa, Kei'ichi Irie, John Muse, Craig Baldwin, Diana Holland, Frances Stark, Millie Wilson, Uta Barth, Sandow Birk, Tod Machover, Eddy Falcon, Darcy Huebler, John Muse, Avital Ronell, Claudia Springer, Daniel Martinez, Luciano Perna, Jennifer Steinkamp, Nancy Salzer, Dorothy Imagire, Neil Denari | 03/04/2025 |
| Fuckeyes | Johnnie Jungle Guts | 03/04/2025 |
| Amnesia | 03/04/2025 | |
| Sex Magazine | Patrick McGraw, Margaret Haines, Asher Penn | 03/04/2025 |
| Put About: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing | Ian Hunt, Maria Fusco | 03/04/2025 |
| Grey Matter | Miguel Palma | 03/04/2025 |
| Provincetown | 03/04/2025 | |
| Classical Music for Artists | Geoff Tuck, David Richards | 03/04/2025 |
| Thomas Lawson | Thomas Lawson | 03/04/2025 |
| The Parkfield Review (2013-2014) | Andrew Cox, Byoung Koh, Michelle Handel, Ed Johnson, Jack Bangerter, Geneva Skeen, Johnnie Jungle Guts, David Bell, Matthew Timmons, Evan Walsh, Ben White, Chris Niemi, Akina Cox, Casey Winkleman, Geoff Tuck, David Richards, Andy Robert, Julian Rogers, Margie Schnibbe, Amanda Evans, Yong Sin, Greg Curtis, Jason Ramos, Sarah Choi, Nihura Monteil, Josh Miller, Erin Christovale, Sojung Kwon, Philip Brack, Kim Calder, Peter Holzhauer, Chris Cao, Lisa Sitko, Mark Rodriguez, Chris Warr | 02/21/2025 |
| Los Angeles Performs Itself: Conversations on performance | Nancy Buchanan, Ulysses Pascal, Andrea Fraser, Simon Leung, Asher Hartman, Rafa Esparza | 02/06/2025 |
| American Panopticon | Michael Zansky | 02/02/2025 |
| Demolition Woman | Gala Porras-Kim, Brenna Youngblood, Kaucyila Brooke, Bessie Kunath, Danielle Dean, Young Kwak, Ariane Vielmetter, veronique d'entremont, Gina Osterloh, Patricia Fernández, Alice Könitz, Kelly Cline | 02/02/2025 |
| Tit for Twat | Kaucyila Brooke | 02/02/2025 |
| Panamericana | Carla Zaccagnini, Nicolás Vélez, Adrián Esparza, Eduardo Basualdo, Nuria Montiel, Diego Pérez, Adrián Rojas, Wilfredo Prieto, Mateo López, Adriana Lara, Juan Capistrán, Alexandre Cunha, Gabriel Sierra, Mariana Deball, Federico Herrero, Marcelo Cidade, Jens Hoffmann, Juan Araujo, Beatrice Muñoz, Alessandro Yazbeck, Cinthya Soto, Yoan Capote | 02/02/2025 |
| Letters | Sarvia Jasso, Janet Kim, Darin Klein, Kathryn Garcia, Lucas Michael, Garrett Cathey, Suzy Halajian, Eli Langer, Eve Fowler, Lara Bank | 02/02/2025 |
| Keep it Slick | 02/02/2025 | |
| Materials and Applications: Building Something Beyond (Beautiful) | 02/02/2025 | |
| ALTERing NATIVism | 01/31/2025 | |
| Intimacies | Tyler Calkin, ian Hokin, Tony Banuelos, Ariane Roesch, Joe Post, Vivian Lin, Jinyoung Koh, Zachary Sharrin, Michala Paludan, Nicole Kim, Kean O'brien, Kenyatta Hinkle, Andy Robert, Clifford Pun, Thomas Mackler, Abel Gutierrez, Cammie Staros, Ramak Frazel, Claire Nereim, Marisa Sciabarrasi, Molly Stinchfield, Donna Brown, Fiona Connor, Jake Jones, Mette Hersoug, Joshua Segura, Keaton Macon, Nathan Vuong, Simone Montemurno, Monica Rodriguez, Valerie Green, Lee Paynter, Amy Howden-Chapman, Melodie Mousset, Arjuna Neuman | 01/30/2025 |
| Would be Saboteurs Take Head | 01/28/2025 | |
| Volition | Gregg Bordowitz | 01/28/2025 |
| Spanish Silver Fox/ | Guan Rong | 01/28/2025 |
| Animal Charm Reviews | Tom Jimmerson, Vern Blosum | 01/28/2025 |
| The Hermit Thrush | Daryl Gussin | 01/28/2025 |
| Moonshine | 01/28/2025 | |
| [untitled white painted book] | 01/28/2025 | |
| Jesse Wars Here | Jesse Harris | 01/28/2025 |
| Performing Economies | Mark Herbst, Adam Overton, Liz Glynn, Ashley Hunt, Vincent Ramos, Robby Herbst, John Barlog, John Burtle, Christina Ulke, Taisha Paggett, Dorit Cypis, Karla Diaz, Elana Mann | 01/28/2025 |
| untitled | Kandis Williams | 01/28/2025 |
| sa shi ko | em kuriyama | 01/28/2025 |
| Revenge | Jane Rubin, Jody Zellen, Michel Schtakleff, Richard Hawkins, Jan Tumlir | 01/28/2025 |
| A Little Gold Rush | T. Leonard | 01/28/2025 |
| Blind Dates & Reunions | Christine Hume, John Lucas, Mark McKnight, Emma Kemp, Whitney Hubbs, Claudia Rankine, John Keene | 01/28/2025 |
| The RxArt Coloring Book | David Row, Gary Hume, Vito Acconci, Keith Haring, R. Crumb, Geraldine Lau, Jane Hammond, Kenny Scharf, Charles Hinman, Michele Doner, Graham Parker, Jason Middlebrook, Rita Ackermann, Tom Otterness, William Wegman, Donald Baechler, Julian Opie, Jim Medway, Chris Astley, Ann Craven, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, John Baldessari, Rita Ackerman, Sol Lewitt, Alexis Rockman, Mark Grotjahn, Libby Black, Ed Baynard | 01/28/2025 |
| An Appendix to House Keeping | Audrey Min, Alistair Maskell, Anna Cho | 01/28/2025 |
| Two Copies | S. Roth | 01/28/2025 |
| Cop Socker Chickin | 01/28/2025 | |
| Vanishing Point | 01/28/2025 | |
| The Bioelectronetic Man | Anton Hervas, Coley Jason | 01/28/2025 |
| Dear Occupiers a letter from anarchists | 01/28/2025 | |
| Noche De Totiar | 01/28/2025 | |
| Anzen Forever | Rob Sato | 01/28/2025 |
| Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader | Susan Morgan | 01/28/2025 |
| Picture a Moon, Shining in the Sky | Martin Kippenberger | 01/28/2025 |
| Sobre la Partícula Coke About the Particule Coke | Gay Couple | 01/28/2025 |
| Go Fuck Yourself | Annie/Andy Danger | 01/28/2025 |
| scum | Amina Cruz | 01/28/2025 |
| Pinups | Paul Sepuya, Dorian Wood | 01/28/2025 |
| The World Book of Burtles | 01/28/2025 | |
| [Newsprint polaroids] | 01/28/2025 | |
| a coloring book | 01/28/2025 | |
| Finish One Thought | Meg Fransee | 01/28/2025 |
| Queer Correspondence | Kang Seung Lee, Beatriz Cortez | 01/28/2025 |
| Sagittarious Modern Hagiography A Profile Astrological Supplement | 01/27/2025 | |
| [flashcard ring book] | 01/27/2025 | |
| Eraser | 01/27/2025 | |
| Propositional Worlds | Adam Overton, Luke Martin, Ron Milam, John Barlog, Hande Sever, Allan Revich, Elonda Harris, John Burtle, Michael Hooper, Michael Workman, Elana Mann | 01/27/2025 |
| 29025 Eveningside Drive | Stine Jacobsen, Ina Blasius | 01/27/2025 |
| February 14 Febrero 14 | Arnold Kemp, Robert Glück | 01/27/2025 |
| To Want to Live is Not to Want to Live in This World | Martin Hansen, Ezra Green | 01/27/2025 |
| Light Relief | Samantha Roth, Jason Bacasa | 01/27/2025 |
| Attempts to Make a Book | Tanya Brodsky, Ellen Schafer, Merideth Hillbrand | 01/27/2025 |
| Topologies of the Underground: Metaphors, Extensions and Speculations | Mariana Botey, Elizabeth Miller, Melinda Guillen, Tim Ridlen | 01/27/2025 |
| Featuring | Ryan Richard, Ryan Richard | 01/27/2025 |
| A List of Two Names (Printed with a Potato) | Keith Knittel | 01/27/2025 |
| All Inanimate Objects With Faces, Excluding, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Located, at 530 Berkeley Ave, Claremont, California, Spring 2021 | Masahiro Mori, Michael Decker, Candice Lin, Elizabeth Allen, Donna Wilson, Patrick Ballard, Ruby Neri | 01/27/2025 |
| Emmy's Lament | Emily Joyce, Mark Allen | 01/27/2025 |
| Type Study | 01/27/2025 | |
| Puppies and Babies | Maggie Nelson, A.L. Steiner | 01/27/2025 |
| Memories of Old Melon Bridge | Emily Joyce, Mark Allen | 01/15/2025 |
| Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia | Richard Hertz, Hiro Kosaka, Matt Mullican, James Welling, Jeanm Fisher, Meg Cranston, Troy Brauntuch, John Baldessari, Tom Wudi, Nancy Chunn, Rosetta Brooks | 01/15/2025 |
| Guide to Eating Fish | Ruoyi Shi | 01/15/2025 |
| I have had 99 dicks & I am not the problem | Megan Hoetger | 01/03/2025 |
| Beyond the Valley of the Ultra | 07/12/2024 | |
| Feminist Art Workers: A History | Cheri Gaulke, Laurel Klick | 07/12/2024 |
| Sisters of Survival | Sisters of Survival | 07/12/2024 |
| Fair Exchange | Irene Tsatsos | 07/12/2024 |
| As You Were : a punk comix anthology | Mitch Clem, Lauren Denitzio | 07/12/2024 |
| Battery | Steven Bankhead | 07/12/2024 |
| Sterling Ruby Chron | Sterling Ruby | 07/12/2024 |
| The Silvershed Reader | Matt Mullican, John McCracken, Peter Halley | 07/12/2024 |
| The Art & Science of Billboard Improvement | 07/12/2024 | |
| Too Many Times I See Every Thing Just The Way It Is | Andrew Choate | 07/12/2024 |
| Another Self | Akina Cox, Ariane Vielmetter | 07/12/2024 |
| #CHEETOSBABY 2015-2016 CALENDAR | Unknown | 02/03/2023 |
| Anatomy of Oil | 01/13/2023 | |
| Segua | Dorian Wood | 01/13/2023 |
| I AM THE ONE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR | Zach Kleyn, Alexander Kleyn | 11/11/2022 |
| What's That Bug? 2006 | Lisa Auerbach, Daniel Marlos | 11/09/2022 |
| Adult Beginner Ballerina Calendar | Alix Vollum | 11/09/2022 |
| one way or another | Yasmine Diaz | 11/09/2022 |
| DON'T WORRY | Anna Haifisch | 11/09/2022 |
| PROPOSITIONAL WORLDS | 11/09/2022 | |
| Against Nature: A show by Homosexual Men | 11/09/2022 | |
| The Parkfield Review #3 | 11/09/2022 | |
| CONTRA MUNDUM I - VII | 11/09/2022 | |
| Guide to Water | Guerrilla Graywater Girls | 10/09/2022 |
| ptxs | Dorian Wood, Gabriela Ruiz | 10/09/2022 |
| [no title] | 09/28/2022 | |
| [no title] | 09/28/2022 | |
| It wasnt my idea to dance | John Hogan | 09/28/2022 |
| Flying Guidelines # 8: TOMATO | 09/23/2022 | |
| Flying Guideline # 5: SWIM | 09/23/2022 | |
| Flying Guide # 18: SEQUOIA | 09/23/2022 | |
| Flying Guideline # 4: EGG | 09/23/2022 | |
| ATLANTIS 3000 | Andi Fischer, Conny Maier, Paul Niedermayer, AA Blue, Ricardo Passaporte, Dennis Buck, Michael Guenzer | 09/23/2022 |
| BOOKSHELF | Lisa Auerbach | 09/23/2022 |
| THE REALEST SHIT I EVER WROTE | Keith Knittel | 09/23/2022 |
| L.A. Tenants Union Tenant Handbook | 09/16/2022 | |
| SECRET PASSAGE SIX | Richard Hawkins | 09/16/2022 |
| Video Art in Latin America | 09/16/2022 | |
| Native Strategies: Dispersions | 09/16/2022 | |
| ACTION REQUIRED | Jacqueline Freedman, Janet Adams, Leland Means, Arleen Chikami, Hina Fagu, Polly Chu, Lisa Barash, Young Chi, Andrew Watanabe, Sarah Lejeune, Michael Miller, Robert Hopkins, Tulsa Kinney, Kerri Sabine, Ross Thompson, Matthew Furmanski, Robert Wedemeyer, Martin Betz, Stephan Shackelford, Cathy Allen, Denise Seider | 09/16/2022 |
| tamarind | Adee Roberson | 09/16/2022 |
| tamarind | 09/16/2022 | |
| AN antagonist's GUIDE TO THE ASSHOLES OF LOS ANGELES | Carol Cheh, Andrea Bowers, Matthew Timmons, Hillary Mushkin, A.L. Steiner, John Kawakami, Damon D'Amato, Eric Schneider, Rita Gonzales, Bilal Ali, Marisa Jahn, Dan Wang, Alex Schaefer, Marc Fischer, Rosten Woo, El Chavo, Elana Mann | 09/16/2022 |
| Hello Meth Lab in the Sun | Alexandre Singh, Justin Lowe, Jonah Freeman | 09/16/2022 |
| New Highland Art Agents: Double Issue | 09/16/2022 | |
| FUCKORZ BOOK5 2013 CALANDOR | Jesse Spears | 09/16/2022 |
| Grindr Poetry | John Burtle, Manuel Solano | 09/16/2022 |
| Lot 2001 | Margie Schnibbe | 09/16/2022 |
| Weekday | Zosia Wiatr, Jonathan Lethem, Kevin Champoux, Amy Bernstein, David Knowles, Travis Jeppesen, Kevin Sampsell, Anna Gray, John Birtle, Neal Morgan, Ashby Collinson, Martine Bellen, Ryan Paulsen, Molly Schaeffer, Lisa Steinman, David Senior, Sam Korman, Robin Cameron, Jessica Baran | 09/16/2022 |
| Camilo Ontiveros: In the Ring | Camilo Ontiveros | 09/09/2022 |
| Julie Lequin's, Book The ice skating tree opéra director's cuts as a book | Julie Lequin | 09/09/2022 |
| After the Gold Rush | Jeremy Deller | 09/09/2022 |
| Conversations: Karl Haendel and Mario Ybarra Jr. | Mario Ybarra Jr. | 09/09/2022 |
| Akinacox Prologues | 09/09/2022 | |
| Getting To Know My Husband's Cock | Ellen Jong | 09/09/2022 |
| Osmosis | 09/09/2022 | |
| Osmosis | Miguel Palma | 09/09/2022 |
| Psychic Outlaws | Annie Buckley | 09/09/2022 |
| Loser | 09/09/2022 | |
| Bruce Nauman Going Solo | Robert Slifkin | 09/09/2022 |
| Johnnie JungleGuts: Collected Writings | 09/09/2022 | |
| Retrofitting | Miguel Palma | 09/09/2022 |
| Machine Project Guide to Cultural History & the Natural Science | Jason Brown, Cheyenne Weaver, Rebecca McGrew, Phil Rose, Kelli Cain, Ryan Taber, Mark Allen, Holly Vesecky, Brian Crabtree, Kimberly Varella | 09/09/2022 |
| Rainbow Book #? | John Burtle | 09/07/2022 |
| Field Guide to North America and other Regions | William Wegman | 09/07/2022 |
Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader
image zoom
Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader features a selection of some 70 pieces--ranging from her 1945 article “Schindler, Space Architect” to “Arts & Architecture: Case Study Houses,” a 1989 essay commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
-HL
1/28/2025