""Pop L.A." maps the relation between a new urban and cultural
space and the artists who confronted it and gave it form. Los
Angeles in the 1960s in Cecile Whiting's smart and incisive study
was home not only to a zany, outre popular culture but also to a
Pop Art as expansive, crisscrossed, and de-centered as the city's
entangled freeways and urban sprawl. Ruscha's photographs of gas
stations and parking lots, Hockney's paintings of swimming pools
and tract homes, Rodia's Watts Towers, and more--after this book,
none will look the same."--Anthony W. Lee, Mount Holyoke College,
author of "Picturing Chinatown"
"Sun, surf, sand, sex, strip malls, subdivisions: all are present
in Cecile Whiting's trenchant anatomy of "Pop Los Angeles," And all
were central to the vision artists constructed of this protean city
as a site of both pleasure and emptiness, speed and stasis. Some
artists, however, went further, not merely representing the city,
but intervening in it, and for Whiting, the results--whether a
performance by Kaprow or a tower by Rodia--further demonstrate the
wild diversity of a multicentric city that somehow seems both more
and less than a circumscribable place."--Anne Wagner, author of
"Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture"
"In "Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s," Cecile Whiting
proves herself an expert guide to the cultural and artistic
landscape of Los Angeles. From hot rods to parking lot Happenings,
from the Watts Towers to Womanhouse, the book thrillingly remaps
the multiple intersections of Pop art and Southern California in
the 1960s and early 70s. Beautifully researched and written, Pop
L.A. is a major work of modern art-historicalscholarship. It is
also one hell of a ride."--Richard Meyer, author of "Outlaw
Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century
American Art"
"From the Ferus Gallery to the Woman's Building, Cecile Whiting has
fashioned an indispensable book. Thanks to her brilliant remapping,
the landscape of art in Los Angeles will never look the
same."--Kenneth E. Silver, author of "Making Paradise: Art,
Modernity, and the Myth of the French Riviera"
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