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Creating the future : art and Los Angeles in the 1970s

Fallon, Michael, 1966- author

Overview

Examines the premise that the progress of art in Los Angeles ceased during the 1970s--after the decline of the Ferus Gallery, the scattering of its stable of artists (Robert Irwin, Ed Kienholz, Ed Moses, Ed Rusha and others), and the economic struggles throughout the decade--and didn't resume until sometime around 1984 when Mark Tansey, Alison Saar, Judy Fiskin, Carrie Mae Weems, David Salle, Manuel Ocampo, among others became stars in an exploding art market. However, this is far from the reality of the L.A. art scene in the 1970s. The passing of those fashionable 1960s-era icons, in fact, allowed the development of a chaotic array of outlandish and independent voices, marginalized communities, and energetic, sometimes bizarre visions that thrived during the stagnant 1970s. Fallon's narrative describes and celebrates, through twelve thematically arranged chapters, the wide range of intriguing artists and the world--not just the objects--they created.

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Subject: Art and society California Los Angeles History 20th century. / Art, American California Los Angeles 20th century Themes, motives. / ART / History / Contemporary (1945-).
• ISBN: 9781619023437, 1619023431

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N72.S6 F35 2014	1	BOOK	ARTS