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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whiting, Cécile, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, American--California--Los Angeles--20th century.

Arts, American.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Pop art--California--Los Angeles.

Pop art.

Pop art--20th century--Los Angeles--California.

Arts, American--California--Los Angeles.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Local Subjects:

Arts, American--California--Los Angeles--20th century.

Arts, American.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Pop art--California--Los Angeles.

Pop art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, Cécile 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 cultu

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 For Purple Mountain Majesties; 2 Cruising Los Angeles; 3 The Erotics of the Built Environment; 4 The Watts Towers as Urban Landmark; 5 L.A. Happenings and Performance Art; Conclusion; Notes; List of Illustrations; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-36060-4

9786612360602

0-520-94175-6

OCLC:

609850147