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Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s ReviewHunter Drohojowska-Philp has long been one of the most reliable and articulate sources of art history in Southern California. Not that her purview is limited to Los Angeles and environs: she has written extensively for the best art journals in the country as well as the books 'Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe' (the definitive biography of this enigmatic artist) and 'Modernism Rediscovered: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman'. There probably is no better or no more reliable art historian about the emergence of the West Coast prominence in American art.
In this fascinating book the author not only interviews or reflects on those artists from the 1960s who made art in somewhat of a visual art wasteland - artists such as Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, Larry Bell, David Hockney, John Baldessari, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Judy Chicago among others - but she also sets the stage for understanding that particular fermenting period in Los Angeles. She shares both the artistic trends coupled with the growth of galleries and the eventual rise of the major museums of our current time (MOCA, LACMA, Geffen Contemporary, Armand Hammer, Japanese American Museum, etc) as well as the clangorous and notorious atmosphere that could only be described as Los Angeles' gestation phase.
Some of the daring events and artists that she discusses with great elan include the Andy Warhol premiere exhibition, the magical wildness of Frank Gehry, the 'guys' of 'Easy Rider' fame and their influence on both the development and the subsequent important collections of their confreres, and many sidebars of the spirit of the times that resulted in Los Angeles becoming one of the more important epicenters of art in the world. It is a fast and at times noisy ride, but Drohojowska-Philp writes with such infectious style that this book in addition to a fine art history book becomes a memoir for a period that will always be imitated but never reproduced. This book will likely become a best seller! Hunter Drohojowska-Philp shares more secrets and scandals and treasureable information than any book in the recent past. Copiously illustrated! Grady Harp, July 11
Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s OverviewThe extraordinary story of the artists who propelled themselves to international fame in 1960s Los AngelesLos 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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