Bohemian Los Angeles

Author : Daniel Hurewitz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520256231

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Bohemian Los Angeles by Daniel Hurewitz Pdf

Historian Hurewitz brings to life a vibrant and all-but-forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. In a hidden corner of Los Angeles, the personal first became the political, the nation's first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale (now part of Silver Lake), Hurewitz considers the work of painters and printmakers, looks inside the Communist Party's intimate cultural scene, and examines the social world of gay men. He discovers why and how these communities, inspiring both one another and the city as a whole, transformed American notions of political identity with their ideas about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations.--From publisher description.

Author : Andrew Deener
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226140025

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Venice by Andrew Deener Pdf

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic proximity. From street to street, and from block to block, million dollar homes stand near housing projects and homeless encampments; and upscale boutiques are just a short walk from the (in)famous Venice Beach where artists and carnival performers practice their crafts opposite cafés and ragtag tourist shops. In Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles, Andrew Deener invites the reader on an ethnographic tour of this legendary California beach community and the people who live there. In writing this book, the ethnographer became an insider; Deener lived as a resident of Venice for close to six years. Here, he brings a scholarly eye to bear on the effects of gentrification, homelessness, segregation, and immigration on this community. Through stories from five different parts of Venice—Oakwood, Rose Avenue, the Boardwalk, the Canals, and Abbot Kinney Boulevard— Deener identifies why Venice maintained its diversity for so long and the social and political factors that threaten it. Drenched in the details of Venice’s transformation, the themes and explanations will resonate far beyond this one city. Deener reveals that Venice is not a single locale, but a collection of neighborhoods, each with its own identity and conflicts—and he provides a cultural map infinitely more useful than one that merely shows streets and intersections. Deener's Venice appears on these pages fully fleshed out and populated with a stunning array of people. Though the character of any neighborhood is transient, Deener's work is indelible and this book will be studied for years to come by scholars across the social sciences.

Author : Melissa Magsaysay
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780062227430

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City of Style by Melissa Magsaysay Pdf

A deep appreciation and a wild visual ride through the wonderland of Los Angeles-style Los Angeles harbors its own canon of styles: Romantic Bohemian, Glamour, Skater and Surfer, Rocker, Chola-Style, Indie-Eclectic, and Casual Chic—each shaped by the unique mix of subcultures, climates, geography, history, and personalities that have coexisted in different pockets of the greater LA area. These signature looks continue to inspire celebrities, clothing designers, and stylists the world over. In City of Style, Melissa Magsaysay, style editor for the Los Angeles Times, draws on decades of the best, most iconic examples of LA-style and explores the trends, tastes, and fashion innovations of today's Angelenos—while offering a taste of the retail landscape, a guide to stores and shops, and helpful tips on how to buy and wear key pieces for each different style. Featuring exclusive interviews with Los Angeles's most influential designers, retailers, and trendsetters, including: Monique Lhuillier Trina Turk Tony Hawk Georgina Chapman (Marchesa) Phillip Lim Slash Cameron Silver Cynthia Rowley And more.

Author : Beth Gates Warren
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060704

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Artful Lives by Beth Gates Warren Pdf

This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a major Modernist photographer while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would fall into obscurity. The book reveals how they and their entourage sought out the limelight as the Hollywood film industry came of age. Based on ten years of research and illustrated with extraordinary images, some never published, this history has a captivating range of characters, including Charlie Chaplin, Imogen Cunningham, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Tina Modotti, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Carl Sandburg. The lively text brings to life the ambiance of this exciting time in Los Angeles history as well as its darker side. Artful Lives exceeds any previously published account of this key period in Weston's development and reveals Mather's important contribution to it, making it an essential reference in Weston studies.

Author : Catherine Prendergast
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593182925

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The Gilded Edge by Catherine Prendergast Pdf

“The Gilded Edge is a compelling read from start to finish. Gripping, suspenseful, cinematic. This is narrative nonfiction at its best.”—Lindsey Fitzharris, bestselling author of The Butchering Art Astonishingly well written, painstakingly researched, and set in the evocative locations of earthquake-ravaged San Francisco and the Monterey Peninsula, the true story of two women—a wife and a poet—who learn the high price of sexual and artistic freedom in a vivid depiction of the debauchery of the late Gilded Age Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the twentieth century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and Bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counterculturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of real estate developer George Sterling, wants the opposite: a semblance of the stability she thought her advantageous marriage would offer, threatened now that her philandering husband has taken to writing poetry. After her second abortion, Nora finds herself in a desperate situation but is rescued by an invitation to stay with the Sterlings. To Carrie's dismay, George and the arrestingly beautiful poetess fall instantly into an affair. The ensuing love triangle, which ultimately ends with the deaths of all three, is more than just a wild love story and a fascinating forgotten chapter. It questions why Nora May—in her day a revered poet whose nationally reported suicide gruesomely inspired youths across the country to take their own lives, with her verses in their pockets no less—has been rendered obscure by literary history. It depicts America at a turning point, as the Gilded Age groans in its death throes and young people, particularly women, look toward a brighter, more egalitarian future. In an unfortunately familiar development, this vision proves to be a mirage. But women's rage at the scam redefines American progressivism forever. For readers of Nathalia Holt, Denise Kiernan, and Sonia Purnell, this shocking history with a feminist bite is not to be missed.

Author : Emily Henson
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781788793131

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Bohemian Modern by Emily Henson Pdf

Emily Henson explores the elements that come together to create this eclectic, colourful and contemporary look and draws inspiration from an array of real-life Bohemian Modern homes.

Author : Dotan Saguy,Jamie Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Beaches
ISBN : 3868288422

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Venice Beach by Dotan Saguy,Jamie Rose Pdf

A photo documentary about the amazing but endangered culture of Venice Beach

Author : Hayden Herrera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982105297

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Upper Bohemia by Hayden Herrera Pdf

"A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"--

Author : Michael Locke and Vincent Brook
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467135320

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Silver Lake Bohemia: A History by Michael Locke and Vincent Brook Pdf

Since the early 1900s, Silver Lake has been a magnet for iconoclastic writers, architects and political activists. Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the Hollyhock House for socialist and oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, drew a wave of visionary modernists to the area. Local civil rights advocate Loren Miller spearheaded the fight against housing discrimination. Silver Lake's Black Cat bar and Harry Hay's Mattachine Society were central to the early gay rights movement. Literary artists Anäis Nin and James Leo Herlihy made the neighborhood their home, as did other notables like first lady of baseball Effa Manley and "Hobo Millionaire" James Eads How. Michael Locke and Vincent Brook chronicle these and other people and places that helped make Silver Lake the bohemian epicenter of Los Angeles.

Author : Spencer Kansa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1906958793

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Out There by Spencer Kansa Pdf

From the late-1950s until his premature death in 1977, Burt Shonberg was one of the most highly admired artists in Los Angeles. During this period, his eye-popping murals graced the facades and interiors of popular coffeehouses and hip clubs on the Sunset Strip; his paintings adorned several notable rock album covers, and his haunting portraits featured prominently in Roger Cormans film adaptations of Edgar Allen Poes The Fall of the House of Usher and The Premature Burial.Born in 1933, Shonberg grew up in the all-American beach town of Revere, Massachusetts, where, according to his friends, he spent most of his time drawing and indulging in his love of monster movies. After graduating high school, he studied for two years at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, and then, after a brief spell in the army, he ventured to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a commercial artist. Soon after he settled in L.A., Shonberg became the lover of the legendary occult artist Marjorie Cameron who turned him on to the teachings of the Edwardian magus Aleister Crowley and introduced him to the mind-warping properties of peyote. Shonberg also embraced the Fourth Way system of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, and his canvases began to reflect the mystical illumination inspired by his higher states of consciousness. In 1960, the artist was chosen by Dr. Oscar Janiger to participate in his groundbreaking study into the effects of LSD-25 on the creative process. Although Shonberg regarded himself as a magical realist, his remarkable renderings of his hallucinogenic visions led many of his acolytes to regard him as the preeminent psychedelic artist of the era, and in the words of his friend and fellow painter Walter Teller, Burt was the artist of Laurel Canyon. Yet despite his popularity and status, Shonbergs artistry has been criminally overlooked in all historical accounts of the Southern Californian art scene, until now. Out There redresses this injustice and brings some long overdue recognition to L.A.s greatest lost artist, in a book illustrated with rare examples of his incandescent artwork.

Author : Michael Locke,Vincent Brook
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625858030

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Silver Lake Bohemia by Michael Locke,Vincent Brook Pdf

Since the early 1900s, Silver Lake has been a magnet for iconoclastic writers, architects and political activists. Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the Hollyhock House for socialist and oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, drew a wave of visionary modernists to the area. Local civil rights advocate Loren Miller spearheaded the fight against housing discrimination. Silver Lake's Black Cat bar and Harry Hay's Mattachine Society were central to the early gay rights movement. Literary artists Anäis Nin and James Leo Herlihy made the neighborhood their home, as did other notables like first lady of baseball Effa Manley and "Hobo Millionaire" James Eads How. Michael Locke and Vincent Brook chronicle these and other people and places that helped make Silver Lake the bohemian epicenter of Los Angeles.

Author : Farah Hagar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365419430

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Blackie Bohemian: Book of Questions by Farah Hagar Pdf

After operating espresso bars, I noticed that people stopped communicating with each other. They started being more involved in their phones and laptops, rather than talking with each other. From this, I determined that people needed a way to start the conversation. From this idea, I created the Blackie Bohemian: Book of Questions. Use this book to start a conversation, whether at an espresso bar, party, home, or wherever you are.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : UOM:39015030248457

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Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : HARVARD:HL368A

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Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jasmin Darznik
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593129449

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The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik Pdf

A dazzling novel of one of America’s most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, exploring the wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring. “Jasmin Darznik expertly delivers an intriguing glimpse into the woman behind those unforgettable photographs of the Great Depression, and their impact on humanity.”—Susan Meissner, bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things In this novel of the glittering and gritty Jazz Age, a young aspiring photographer named Dorothea Lange arrives in San Francisco in 1918. As a newcomer—and naïve one at that—Dorothea is grateful for the fast friendship of Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past, who introduces Dorothea to Monkey Block, an artists’ colony and the bohemian heart of the city. Dazzled by Caroline and her friends, Dorothea is catapulted into a heady new world of freedom, art, and politics. She also finds herself falling in love with the brilliant but troubled painter Maynard Dixon. As Dorothea sheds her innocence, her purpose is awakened and she grows into the artist whose iconic Depression-era “Migrant Mother” photograph broke the hearts and opened the eyes of a nation. A vivid and absorbing portrait of the past, The Bohemians captures a cast of unforgettable characters, including Frida Kahlo, Ansel Adams, and D. H. Lawrence. But moreover, it shows how the gift of friendship and the possibility of self-invention persist against the ferocious pull of history.