CALL FOR PAPERS

Los Angeles Art of the 1960s (CAA Boston, Feb 06)

Call for papers for panel at CAA's
(College Art Association) annual conference in Boston, 2/2006:

Proposals, sent to session chairs and not to CAA, must be received by
May 13, 2005.

Los Angeles Art of the 1960s: A Critical Reevaluation

During the 1960s, Los Angeles experienced something of a renaissance
in the arts, with many L.A. artists achieving unprecedented prominence
in the national and international art world. But the artists who were
most celebrated at the time represented only a small, albeit
important, slice of the region’s broader arts community. Since the
1960s, and particularly during the last twenty years, critics and
historians have sought to provide a fuller picture of L.A. art of this
era, often focusing on women artists and artists of color. This panel
seeks papers reevaluating the received and revised histories of art in
Los Angeles in the 1960s. Issues to be considered might include: How
did artists as diverse as John Altoon, Judy Chicago, David Hammons, Ed
Kienholz, Simon Rodia, or Betye Saar work within the city> '> s
broader art milieu? What was the relationship between the communities
represented by the Brockman Gallery or Gallery 32 and more mainstream
galleries like Felix Landau or Ferus? We welcome papers on these and
other topics relating to the history and politics of this seminal period.

Christopher R. DeFay, University of Michigan; and Alexandra Schwartz,
Museum of Modern Art; mail to: Alexandra Schwartz, Museum of Modern
Art, Dept. of Painting and Sculpture, 11 W. 53 St., New York, NY 10019