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Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s
Cécile Whiting
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Description for Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s
Paperback. 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. This book shows how the artists transformed the image of the city in works that focused on the ocean and landscape, suburban life, and dilapidated houses in aging neighborhoods. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 color illustrations, 77 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; ACXJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
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, Cecile 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 ... Read more
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, Cecile 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
758g
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520256347
SKU
V9780520256347
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About Cécile Whiting
Cecile Whiting is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, and author of A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture (1997) and Antifascism in American Art (1989).
Reviews for Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s
"Pioneering... Whiting's project will be central to any further work on West Coast art in the postwar period." Art Journal (CAA)