Creating the Future: Art & Los Angeles in the 1970s

by Michael Fallon

Book Overview

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--after the decline of the Ferus Gallery, the scattering of its stable of artists (Robert Irwin, Ed Kienholz, Ed Moses, Ed Rusha and others), and the economic struggles throughout the decade--and didn't resume until sometime around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619025779
• ISBN13: 9781619025776
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Catapult
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.7"