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The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s
Henry Holt and Co.
July 2011
On Sale: July 19, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0805088369
EAN: 9780805088366
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The extraordinary story of the artists who propelled
themselves to international fame in 1960s Los Angeles Los Angeles, 1960: There was no modern art museum and there
were few galleries, which is exactly what a number of daring
young artists liked about it, among them Ed Ruscha, David
Hockney, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Judy Chicago and John
Baldessari. Freedom from an established way of seeing,
making, and marketing art fueled their creativity, which in
turn inspired the city. Today Los Angeles has four museums
dedicated to contemporary art, around one hundred galleries,
and thousands of artists. Here, at last, is the book that
tells the saga of how the scene came into being, why a
prevailing Los Angeles permissiveness, 1960s-style, spawned
countless innovations, including Andy Warhol's first
exhibition, Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective, Frank
Gehry's mind-bending architecture, Rudi Gernreich's topless
bathing suit, Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, even the Beach
Boys, the Byrds, the Doors, and other purveyors of a
California style. In the 1960s, Los Angeles was the
epicenter of cool.
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