The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s
The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 26, 2011
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp describes the art scene in 1960s Los Angeles and looks at the artists—among them Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Judy Chicago and John Baldessari—who rose to international prominence. Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s tells how the scene came into being and why a prevailing Los Angeles permissiveness and 1960s-style spawned countless innovations and was the epicenter of cool.
