The Ferus Gallery : a place to begin
Kristine McKenna
Bok · Engelsk · 2009
| Utgitt | Göttingen : Steidl , 2009
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| Omfang | 319 s. : kol. ill.
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| Opplysninger | In 1951 the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors made it illegal to exhibit modern art in the city of L.A. on the grounds that modernism was a front for communist infiltration. This gives you some idea of what Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps were up against when they opened the Ferus Gallery in 1957. Living as we do in a period when art has fostered a globel economy that churns out newly minted millionaires everyday, it’s hard to imagine art being perceived as something so threatening that laws must be instituted to control it. Can you recall the last time there was a public outrage prompted by an artwork? As art grows as an economy, it seems to be of less and less interest to art world outsiders, most of whom don’t even know what something like Documenta is, much less care what’s exhibited in it. There was a time, however, when culture was hotly contested ground in Los Angeles, a city infamous for its hostility to the avant garde during the first half of the 20th Century. Fifty years ago L.A. was so conservative and xenophobic that “it didn't even have a french restaurant,” recalls colletor Don Factor. It’s good to have something to kick against, though, and repression always churns up fertile soil that encourages the arts to flourish. And so it was in Los Angeles in the 50s.
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| ISBN | 9783865216106
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