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Bohemia in southern California /

Bohemia in southern California is a collection of essays that explores alternative life styles and artistic endeavors in the Southland. Taken collectively, they suggest that when la vie bohéme arrived in the land of sunshine, a unique way of being unconventional was created. The classical Western bo...

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Other Authors: Capra, Pablo (Contributor), Geurard, Genie (Contributor), Hertz, Richard, 1940- (Contributor), Holada, Jessica (Contributor), Hurewitz, Daniel (Contributor), Lawler, Kristin (Contributor), Mohr, Bill (Contributor), Polkinhorn, Harry (Contributor), Prevots, Naima, 1935- (Contributor), Rubin, Rachel, 1964- (Contributor), Ruby, Jay (Editor, Contributor), Stewart, Katherine (Contributor), Thompson, Mark, 1956- (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : San Diego State University Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Bohemianism > California, Southern > History.
California, Southern > Intellectual life > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jay Ruby
  • Arroyo Seco
  • Print culture on the Arroyo Seco, 1895-1947 / Jessica Holada
  • Charles Fletcher Lummis's peculiar "Refugee for Love and Humanity" on the Arroyo / Mark Thompson
  • Edendale
  • Edendale : the political importance of Los Angeles's bohemian community / Daniel Hurewitz
  • Jake Zeitlin : books and galleries, 1927-1940 / Genie Guerard
  • The spirited freedom of Norma Gould (1888-1980) / Naima Prevots
  • Subcultures within the L. A. art world, 1970-1980 / Richard Hertz
  • Santa Barbara
  • Mountain Drive : bohemian renaissance in the Santa Barbara hills / Katherine Stewart
  • Malibu/Topanga Beach
  • Idlers of the Bamboo Grove / Pablo Capra
  • Bohemianism and the California surfer / Kristin Lawler
  • Bohemia in Malibu : a hidden treasure / Jay Ruby
  • Venice
  • Space/time and the radical image : Wallace Berman's 'Semina' / Harry Polkinhorn
  • When a coterie meets the carnival : the poets of Venice west as the neo-anarchists of a mid-century Bohemia / William Mohr
  • Laurel Canyon
  • Hippies, weirdies, and leftists : counterculture and carnival in Los Angeles / Rachel Rubin.