Creating the future
Michael Fallon
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
| Omfang | 405 sider, [8] sider med plansjer : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : Confusion, Uncertainty, and the Southern Californian Origins of Art's Postmodern Plurality -- A DEW Line for the Old Culture : 1971, the "Art and Technology" exhibition, and the End of L.A.'s Modernist Daydreams -- The Long March : The Rise of Women Artists -- Viva Mi Raza! : The Rise of Chicano Artists -- A Laminar Flow at the Edges : Or, Anger and Dissent in the early 1970s Art Scene -- Not an Energy Crisis : L.A.'s Explosion in Conceptual and Performance Art -- "Devil with a Hammer and Hell with a Torch" : How L.A.'s Street Culture Inspired a New "Lowbrow" Art Movement -- The Horizontal City : Public Art in the Landscape of L.A. -- The Mongols in the West : A Trio of Outsiders Quietly Subvert the L.A. Art World -- Future Shock : The Birth of L.A.'s Young Romantics -- A Last Look at the "L.A. Look" -- Epilogue : The Lingering Afterimage of L.A.'s Art of the 1970s. - "Conceived as a challenge to long-standing conventional wisdom, Creating the Future is a work of social history/cultural criticism that 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 a rranged chapters, the wide range of intriguing artists and the world--not just the objects--they created. He reveals the deeper, more culturally dynamic truth about a significant moment in American art history, presenting an alternative story of stubborn creativity in the face of widespread ignorance and misapprehension among the art cognoscenti, who dismissed the 1970s in Los Angeles as a time of dissipation and decline. Coming into being right before their eyes was an ardent local feminist art movement, which had lasting influence on the direction of art across the nation; an emerging Chicano Art movement, spreading Chicano murals across Los Angeles and to other major cities; a new and more modern vision for the role and look of public art; a slow consolidation of local street sensibilities, car fetishism, gang and punk aesthetics into the earliest version of what would later become the "Lowbrow" art movement; the subversive co-opting, in full view of Pop Art, of the values, aesthet ics, and imagery of Tinseltown by a number of young and innovative local artists who would go on to greater national renown; and a number of independent voices who, lacking the support structures of an art movement or artist cohort, pursued their brilliant artistic visions in near-isolation. Despite the lack of attention, these artists would later reemerge as visionary signposts to many later trends in art. Their work would prove more interesting, more lastingly influential, and vastly more important than ever imagined or expected by those who saw it or even by those who created it in 1970's Los Angeles. Creating the Future is a visionary work that seeks to recapture this important decade and its influence on today's generation of artists. "--
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| Geografisk emneord | Los Angeles . - USA
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| ISBN | 9781619023437
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