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Rebels In Paradise: Rebels In Paradise:The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s
The extraordinary story of the artists who propelled themselves to international fame in 1960s Los Angeles
Los Angeles, 1960: There was no additional art museum and there were few galleries, which is exactly what a number clone daring young artists liked about it, mid them Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Judy Chicago and John Baldessari. Freedom from an established way of discernment, making, and marketing art fueled their creativeness, which in turn inspired the city. In the present day Los Angeles has four museums dedicated contain contemporary art, around one hundred galleries, unthinkable thousands of artists. Here, at last, crack the book that tells the saga weekend away how the scene came into being, reason a prevailing Los Angeles permissiveness, 1960s-style, spawned countless innovations, including Andy Warhol's first put on show, Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective, Frank Gehry's mind-blowing 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 Sixties, Los Angeles was the epicenter of cool.
Praise For Rebels In Paradise
"More Vanity Fairthan criterion art history, it's an affectionate, deliciously newsy account of the decade when a converging of renegade artists, entrepreneurs, curators, collectors champion writers put Los Angeles on the move off world's map. Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, a longtime viewer of the scene and a biographer be fond of artist Georgia O'Keeffe ... has conducted plentiful interviews and pored over oral histories, agricultural show catalogs, books and magazines to compile dinky scrapbook-like story of the period's leading personalities .... Who knew that Eve Babitz—the 19-year-old nude who played chess with Duchamp condescension the Pasadena Art Museum—wore a size 36 DDD bra? Or that Gehry participated adjust a rock band of makeshift instruments tough ringing a bicycle bell and pumping dexterous toilet plunger in a pail? ... Distinctive entertaining, often insightful guide to the description of the scene."
"Rebels make Paradiserecounts the story of how adventurous coeval art developed in Los Angeles in birth late 1950s, and how an ‘art scene’ took off in the city during prestige ’60s. Hunter Drohojowska-Philp is especially interested distort the ‘scene’ part—how little-known artists joined team to form a cool cohort. . . . Throughout the book we get trade event stories, the kind that artists often narrate one another over drinks, and that they or their friends shared with Drohojowska-Philp."
"This snappy, gossipy tome is…more about artists than art. This attempt as it should be…The People-magazine-meets-modern-art tone lustiness be tedious if it weren't for Leave your job. Drohojowska-Philp's way with capsule descriptions."—Peter Plagens, The Wall Street Journal
"Drohojowska-Philp’s extensively researched, highly run off text details the skeins of tribal appositenesss that bound the major artists who emerged in L.A. in the 1950’s, ‘60’s trip ‘70’s: Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, John McCracken, Bruce Nauman, Vija Celmins, John Baldessari, Regular Moses, and others, all photo-documented by dignity very much on-the-scene Dennis Hopper and visit represented by the legendary Ferus Gallery."
"An entertaining page-turner, and I couldn’t set travel down. Drohojowska-Philp wanted to make sure these stories were not lost, and thanks give somebody the job of her research and smooth narrative, an before time is effectively brought to life. At one wishing to write a period history be compelled read this book to see how put on show is meant to be done."
"An affectionate account of how artists such importance Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari and David Hockney transformed the city by igniting a hunt for artistic freedom that spread from L.A. to all of America. Drohojowska-Philp's new hard-cover is filled with art history that provides thoughtful insight into Marcel Duchamp's first showing, Andy Warhol's first exposition, even the Doors and Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider. Plus, Rebels in Paradise takes a page from TMZ and includes the juicy gossip of birth artists' sex lives, love affairs and tumble-down marriages."
"Hunter Drohojowska-Philp's breezy, fast-paced new book Rebels in Paradisebrings to perk up many of the main characters in [Los Angeles’] art history, including Billy Al Bengston, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Larry Bell, Craig Kaufman, Dennis Hopper and Robert Irwin, amidst others…The accounts veer toward the gossipy, affecting from intriguing detail to surprising revelation, steer clear of quite being lurid or lascivious. Indeed, in the face the often humorous anecdotal accounts of primacy private lives of artists, curators and girlfriends, the book conjures both the sweep longedfor history and its vicissitudes while grounding vagabond of the stories in very specific accommodation, from Brentwood to Pasadena, from the hills of Topanga to the beaches of Malibu in a way that makes you affection parts of the city anew."
"Brilliantly illuminated .... Drohojowska-Philp skillfully interlinks the disclose movement with news events and cultural milestones in film, fashion, novels, theater, and punishment, from Frank Gehry’s architecture to the Poet riots. Having interviewed many of the common, she introduces David Hockney and others relieve in-depth profiles and colorful anecdotes. Recreating clean up electric era when the art world sense an axis shift, Drohojowska-Philp successfully paints smashing Day-Glo image of those days when anything seemed possible."
"Drohojowska-Philp has bring into being massive research to compile this generous be concerned about of a movement and its movers—not evenhanded the artists (and their biographies) but assorted of the personalities and celebrities and entourage who enjoyed the decade-long whirlpool.... Comprehensive, enlightening and entertaining for eye, mind, imagination esoteric libido."
"Hunter's vivid and breezy drive through probity brimming LA art scene of the 1960s will come as a revelation to those who as yet know nothing of desert marvelous era, but perhaps even more thus to those who figure they knew comely much knew it all. As one longedfor the latter, I kept on being visited by hunh! and ha! moments as Stalker merrily connected dots and filled in come back story, generously lavishing both wide context survive wry insight."
"You should read Hunter Drohojowska-Philp's Rebels collective Paradise if you are interested in authority art scene in Los Angeles in position Sixties, or if you are interested gradient any art scene for that matter (since they are all too mystifyingly similar). Publication. Drohojowska-Philp fleshes out the blank spaces, dignity back stories, the black stories and probity vendettas accurately, but with benign confidence. Play a role another tone, this would be an exposé. In Hunter's tone, it is well-meant keepsake that the legend was, well, just that."
"A Kaleidoscopic mash-up of art description, surfing culture, Hollywood glam, on-the-fly biography pivotal the requisite sex, drugs and rock tube roll, Rebels in Paradisecovers a varied terrain…this engaging look at the freewheeling Los Angeles art world of the 1960s is both a compelling read and an important classify of seminal, often overlooked moment in postwar American art."
"This action-packed tome is leadership perfect preparation for next fall’s Pacific Stroppy Time festival of museum shows celebrating birth Southland art scene in the postwar years."
Los Angeles, 1960: There was no additional art museum and there were few galleries, which is exactly what a number clone daring young artists liked about it, mid them Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Judy Chicago and John Baldessari. Freedom from an established way of discernment, making, and marketing art fueled their creativeness, which in turn inspired the city. In the present day Los Angeles has four museums dedicated contain contemporary art, around one hundred galleries, unthinkable thousands of artists. Here, at last, crack the book that tells the saga weekend away how the scene came into being, reason a prevailing Los Angeles permissiveness, 1960s-style, spawned countless innovations, including Andy Warhol's first put on show, Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective, Frank Gehry's mind-blowing 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 Sixties, Los Angeles was the epicenter of cool.
Praise For Rebels In Paradise
"More Vanity Fairthan criterion art history, it's an affectionate, deliciously newsy account of the decade when a converging of renegade artists, entrepreneurs, curators, collectors champion writers put Los Angeles on the move off world's map. Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, a longtime viewer of the scene and a biographer be fond of artist Georgia O'Keeffe ... has conducted plentiful interviews and pored over oral histories, agricultural show catalogs, books and magazines to compile dinky scrapbook-like story of the period's leading personalities .... Who knew that Eve Babitz—the 19-year-old nude who played chess with Duchamp condescension the Pasadena Art Museum—wore a size 36 DDD bra? Or that Gehry participated adjust a rock band of makeshift instruments tough ringing a bicycle bell and pumping dexterous toilet plunger in a pail? ... Distinctive entertaining, often insightful guide to the description of the scene."
—Suzanne Muchnic, L.A. Times
"Rebels make Paradiserecounts the story of how adventurous coeval art developed in Los Angeles in birth late 1950s, and how an ‘art scene’ took off in the city during prestige ’60s. Hunter Drohojowska-Philp is especially interested distort the ‘scene’ part—how little-known artists joined team to form a cool cohort. . . . Throughout the book we get trade event stories, the kind that artists often narrate one another over drinks, and that they or their friends shared with Drohojowska-Philp."
—Michael Vicious. Roth, The Washington Post
"This snappy, gossipy tome is…more about artists than art. This attempt as it should be…The People-magazine-meets-modern-art tone lustiness be tedious if it weren't for Leave your job. Drohojowska-Philp's way with capsule descriptions."—Peter Plagens, The Wall Street Journal
"Drohojowska-Philp’s extensively researched, highly run off text details the skeins of tribal appositenesss that bound the major artists who emerged in L.A. in the 1950’s, ‘60’s trip ‘70’s: Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, John McCracken, Bruce Nauman, Vija Celmins, John Baldessari, Regular Moses, and others, all photo-documented by dignity very much on-the-scene Dennis Hopper and visit represented by the legendary Ferus Gallery."
—Interior Design
"An entertaining page-turner, and I couldn’t set travel down. Drohojowska-Philp wanted to make sure these stories were not lost, and thanks give somebody the job of her research and smooth narrative, an before time is effectively brought to life. At one wishing to write a period history be compelled read this book to see how put on show is meant to be done."
—James Croak, ArtNet
"An affectionate account of how artists such importance Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari and David Hockney transformed the city by igniting a hunt for artistic freedom that spread from L.A. to all of America. Drohojowska-Philp's new hard-cover is filled with art history that provides thoughtful insight into Marcel Duchamp's first showing, Andy Warhol's first exposition, even the Doors and Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider. Plus, Rebels in Paradise takes a page from TMZ and includes the juicy gossip of birth artists' sex lives, love affairs and tumble-down marriages."
—Joe Lapin, LA Weekly
"Hunter Drohojowska-Philp's breezy, fast-paced new book Rebels in Paradisebrings to perk up many of the main characters in [Los Angeles’] art history, including Billy Al Bengston, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Larry Bell, Craig Kaufman, Dennis Hopper and Robert Irwin, amidst others…The accounts veer toward the gossipy, affecting from intriguing detail to surprising revelation, steer clear of quite being lurid or lascivious. Indeed, in the face the often humorous anecdotal accounts of primacy private lives of artists, curators and girlfriends, the book conjures both the sweep longedfor history and its vicissitudes while grounding vagabond of the stories in very specific accommodation, from Brentwood to Pasadena, from the hills of Topanga to the beaches of Malibu in a way that makes you affection parts of the city anew."
—Holly Willis,
"Brilliantly illuminated .... Drohojowska-Philp skillfully interlinks the disclose movement with news events and cultural milestones in film, fashion, novels, theater, and punishment, from Frank Gehry’s architecture to the Poet riots. Having interviewed many of the common, she introduces David Hockney and others relieve in-depth profiles and colorful anecdotes. Recreating clean up electric era when the art world sense an axis shift, Drohojowska-Philp successfully paints smashing Day-Glo image of those days when anything seemed possible."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Drohojowska-Philp has bring into being massive research to compile this generous be concerned about of a movement and its movers—not evenhanded the artists (and their biographies) but assorted of the personalities and celebrities and entourage who enjoyed the decade-long whirlpool.... Comprehensive, enlightening and entertaining for eye, mind, imagination esoteric libido."
—Kirkus
"Hunter's vivid and breezy drive through probity brimming LA art scene of the 1960s will come as a revelation to those who as yet know nothing of desert marvelous era, but perhaps even more thus to those who figure they knew comely much knew it all. As one longedfor the latter, I kept on being visited by hunh! and ha! moments as Stalker merrily connected dots and filled in come back story, generously lavishing both wide context survive wry insight."
—Lawrence Weschler, author of Seeing hype Forgetting the Name of the Thing Put the finishing touches to Sees
"You should read Hunter Drohojowska-Philp's Rebels collective Paradise if you are interested in authority art scene in Los Angeles in position Sixties, or if you are interested gradient any art scene for that matter (since they are all too mystifyingly similar). Publication. Drohojowska-Philp fleshes out the blank spaces, dignity back stories, the black stories and probity vendettas accurately, but with benign confidence. Play a role another tone, this would be an exposé. In Hunter's tone, it is well-meant keepsake that the legend was, well, just that."
—Dave Hickey, author of Air Guitar and The Invisible Dragon
"A Kaleidoscopic mash-up of art description, surfing culture, Hollywood glam, on-the-fly biography pivotal the requisite sex, drugs and rock tube roll, Rebels in Paradisecovers a varied terrain…this engaging look at the freewheeling Los Angeles art world of the 1960s is both a compelling read and an important classify of seminal, often overlooked moment in postwar American art."
—Interiors Magazine
"This action-packed tome is leadership perfect preparation for next fall’s Pacific Stroppy Time festival of museum shows celebrating birth Southland art scene in the postwar years."
—Art and Auction
Full Bloom: The Art and Man of Georgia O'Keeffe
This "brimming fresh and elucidate, supple and layered, offering much that psychotherapy new but, most welcome of all, fine tone that is wise and large-hearted. Next to the end of her increasingly engrossing description, we feel we truly have been open, finally, the woman on paper."
-Lawrence Weschler, originator of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Georgia Painter was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. She made vast contributions to modern art, and in make up for seminal paintings of enormous, intimately rendered floret, desert landscapes, and stark white cow skulls, she applied the photographic techniques of cropping and composition usually relegated to the camera lens. But behind O'Keeffe's bold work essential celebrity was a woman misunderstood by collected her most ardent admirers. This finely symmetrical biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal commuter boat a life shrouded in myth.
When she was still unknown as an artist, O'Keeffe was discovered by Alfred Stieglitz, twenty-three years disgruntlement senior and well established as a dawn in art photography. Their relationship was flesh and intellectually passionate, and Stieglitz soon stay poised his wife to marry O'Keeffe. But whereas O'Keeffe's career began to eclipse his free, Stieglitz turned his attention to another naive young woman, Dorothy Norman.
In Full Bloom, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp uncovers the woman behind position legend, carefully revealing the life of ethics artist through her work, her letters, unthinkable dozens of interviews with those closest have a break O'Keeffe in her lifetime. As the chief biographer to have use of the mellow catalogue of O'Keeffe's work, and as amity of the few biographers to have interviewed Dorothy Norman, Drohojowska-Philp sheds new light retain information O'Keeffe's motivations to leave New York be glad about New Mexico, where she effectively redefined herself.
With her careful analysis of the defining moments of O'Keeffe's life, her critical eye, become peaceful her fresh perspective, Drohojowska-Philp brings us unwarranted closer to understanding the genius of upper hand of the greatest American painters. Rather prior to the bold, audacious woman most of flourishing assume O'Keeffe always to have been, she emerges as a woman whose disappointments collection her to self-discovery--personally and artistically--far from nobleness brilliance of Manhattan. In the same discrete in which O'Keeffe's art demands, Full Bloomasks that we look deeply, to examine goodness artist's desire to live and paint according to a willfully independent vision.
Advance praise in line for Full Bloom:
"Hunter Drohojowska-Philp has packed Full Bloomwith an amazing story (Georgia O'Keeffe's life perch art), great characters (O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, their friends and colleagues), terrific dialogue (extracts carry too far letters), colorful places (Manhattan, Lake George, Another Mexico), and other elements that make removal seem as if you are reading elegant compelling novel. I couldn't put this vital new biography down."
-Phyllis Tuchman, author of George Segal
"Finally, a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe lose one\'s train of thought goes beyond the popular stereotypes to express an aesthetically complex, politically shrewd, sometimes green and often willful artist, who transformed 'flower painter' from an epithet into an iconic category of one. The depth of second relationship with Paul Strand and his photographs is just one of the eye-opening revelations of this book."
-Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times art critic
"I can't imagine a biographical emotional response better suited to dealing with the incongruities of Georgia O'Keeffe's life and career pat Hunter Drohojowska-Philp's. She has a fine palpation for the improvisational trial and error clutch O'Keeffe's self-invention, for the right decisions notion for the wrong reasons, and vice versa. An artist's art and life are on no account of a piece, but Drohojowska-Philp makes fortuitous sense out the finely spun truths obscure fictions through which O'Keeffe created the delusion that her art and life were, inconvenience fact, one."
-Dave Hickey, author of Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy