{"product_id":"art-and-the-city-9780812221534","title":"Art and the City","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo longer represented only by Hollywood and the commercial fashion industry, Los Angeles in recent years has received international media attention as one of the world's new art centers. From the appearance of local artists in major European exhibitions to widely reported multimillion-dollar museum endowments, Los Angeles has entered the world cultural stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e places this celebrated arrival in the richer context of art controversies and political contests over modern art and art spaces in the twentieth century. The Ferus Gallery's pop-infused \"L.A. Look\" and \"finish-fetish,\" now synonymous with Los Angeles's postwar modernist aesthetics, emerged from a dispersed art community that struggled in the 1950s to find a toehold in a local scene reeling from the censure of the McCarthy era. The Watts Towers have long faced neglect despite their international fame, while Venice Beach, Barnsdall Park, Griffith Park, and Olvera Street proved highly contentious sites of urban cultural expression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging historical accounts that situate the city's origins as an art center in the 1960s, \u003ci\u003eArt and the City\u003c\/i\u003e argues that debates over modernism among artists and civic leaders alike made art a charged political site as early as the 1910s. The legacy of those early battles reverberated throughout the century. Because of a rich tradition of arts education and the presence of Hollywood, Los Angeles historically hosted a talented population of contemporary artists. However, because of the snug relationship between urban aesthetics and capital investment that underscored the booster goals of the civic arts movement, modern artists were pushed out of public exhibition spaces until after World War II. \u003ci\u003eArt and the City\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the historic struggles for cultural expression and creative space that are hidden behind the city's booster mythology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Schrank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955774525558,"sku":"9780812221534","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/art-and-the-city-9780812221534","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}