 | Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles Subjects: Public art -- Political aspects -- California -- Los Angeles; Art and society -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Cultural policy; Art and the City explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century. Sarah Schrank is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. |
