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<p><P>"<i>Pop L.A.</i> 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 C&eacute;cile Whiting's smart and incisive study was home not only to a zany, outr&eacute; 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&#151;after this book, none will look the same."&#151;Anthony W. Lee, Mount Holyoke College, author of <i>Picturing Chinatown</i><P>"Sun, surf, sand, sex, strip malls, subdivisions&#58; all are present in C&eacute;cile Whiting's trenchant anatomy of <i>Pop Los Angeles</i>. 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&#151;whether a performance by Kaprow or a tower by Rodia&#151;further demonstrate the wild diversity of a multicentric city that somehow seems

Author

Whiting, Cécile

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520256347

Subjects

Art, Arts