ARTH 251 Art in the City (Los Angeles)

Los Angeles in recent years has received international media attention as one of the world's new art centers. Schrank places this celebrated arrival in the richer context of art controversies and political contests over modern art and art spaces in the twentieth century.

Spontaneous, in-your-face and unauthorised, the work of street artists and graffiti writers demands our attention. Wildly creative and often subversive, street art shows that just because a work isn't in a gallery doesn't mean itOCOs not art. From Sao Paolo to Sydney, New York to Tokyo, these artists exhibit their work in the world's most accessible museum - the street - sharing their vision with a public unable to avoid their work, like it or not.

This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced. The authors, leading experts on mural art, use a distinctive methodology, analyzing the art from aesthetic, political, and cultural perspectives to show how murals and graffiti reflected and influenced the Chicano civil rights movement.

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 and didn't resume until sometime around 1984. However, this is far from the reality of the L.A. art scene in the 1970s. Fallon's narrative describes and celebrates, through twelve thematically arranged chapters, the wide range of intriguing artists and the world--not just the objects--they created. 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.

Discover LA's hidden streets, architectural masterpieces, Hollywood romance, lost canyons, and diverse culture. Each self-guided tour includes a detailed map, original photograph, and public transportation information. On every urban trek, you'll soak up the LA vibe, from quirky art to world-class museums to of-the-moment shops and restaurants.