Pop L. A. Art and the City in The 1960s

Name: Pop L. A. Art and the City in The 1960s
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ISBN: 9780520256347

ISBN-10: 0520256344

ISBN-13: 9780520256347

Edition: 2006

Authors: Cï¿½cile Whiting, Cï¿½cile Whiting

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Andy Warhol said about his road trip to Los Angeles in 1963: "The farther West we drove, the more Pop everything looked on the highways." In this original and engaging book, Ceacute;cile Whiting examines what Pop looked like when it left the highbrow cloisters of Manhattan's art galleries and ventured westward to the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles. She finds that the artists who made California their home in the 1960s did not abandon their paint brushes for tennis rackets and surfboards, but rather created in their works a new and different sense of space, the urban experience, and popular culture. Whiting shows how artists such as Vija Celmins, Llyn Foulkes, David Hockney, Dennis Hopper,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 0.72" wide x 0.97" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Ceacute;cile Whitingis Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, and author ofA Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture(1997) andAntifascism in American Art(1989).



Acknowledgments


Introduction



For Purple Mountain Majesties



Cruising Los Angeles



The Erotics of the Built Environment



The Watts Towers as Urban Landmark



L.A. Happenings and Performance Art


Conclusion


Notes


List of Illustrations


Index