Out of sight : the Los Angeles art scene of the sixties /

Out of sight : the Los Angeles art scene of the sixties /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hackman, William R., author.
Imprint:	New York : Other Press, [2015]
Description:	308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Art, American -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century. Art and society -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century. Art, American. Art and society. Civilization. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century. California -- Los Angeles. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10163844

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ISBN:	9781590514115 1590514114 9781590514122
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends in New York. Los Angeles was out of sight and out of mind, viewed as the apotheosis of popular culture, not a center for serious art. Out of Sight chronicles the rapid-fire rise, fall, and rebirth of L.A.'s art scene, from the emergence of a small bohemian community in the 1950s to the founding of the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1980. Included are some of the most influential artists of our time: painters Edward Ruscha and Vija Celmins, sculptors Ed Kienholz and Ken Price, and many others. A book about the city as much as it is about the art, Out of Sight is a social and cultural history that illuminates the ways mid-century Los Angeles shaped its emerging art scene--and how that art scene helped remake the city"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "It was very possible to entertain the future here"
1. Work in Progress
2. The Coast of Bohemia
3. A Feral Gallery
4. Obscure Objects of Desire
5. Reinventing the Wheel
6. Wild West
7. Walter Hopps, Hopps, Hopps
8. The Other Side of Town
9. Ferus Redux
10. All That Is Solid
11. The Orgiastic Future
12. Suburbia and the Sublime
13. Seeing and Nothingness
14. After the Gold Rush
15. "There oughta be a law against sunny Southern California"
16. Magic Kingdom
17. Location, Location, Location
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index