Bohemia in Southern California
By: edited by Jay Ruby
Contributors: 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; Stewart, Katherine, contributor; Thompson, Mark, 1956- contributor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: San Diego State University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: San Diego, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781938537103
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Bohemianism; History; Intellectual life
Description: "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 bohemias of Paris, New York's Greenwich Village, and the North Beach community of San Francisco were complemented by a rich flowering of individual and group experiments in creative living and the production of art. The book contains essays by scholars in literature, cultural studies, anthropology, librarianship, the book arts, history, psychoanalysis, the performing arts, and others that provide a uniquely multidisciplinary approach. This captivating and wide-ranging volume takes readers on a compelling tour, from the Arroyo Seco and Edendale communities, earlier in the twentieth century, to the beach communities of Malibu; from coffeehouse culture, surfer enclaves, and 1960s counterculture to the explosion of artistic and bohemian scenes several decades later in Venice, Laurel Canyon, downtown Los Angeles, and the Santa Barbara hillsides."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-258).
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Jay Ruby -- Arroyo Seco; title: Print culture on the Arroyo Seco, 1895-1947  -- Jessica Holada; title: Charles Fletcher Lummis's peculiar "Refugee for Love and Humanity" on the Arroyo  -- Mark Thompson -- Edendale; title: Edendale : the political importance of Los Angeles's bohemian community  -- Daniel Hurewitz; title: Jake Zeitlin : books and galleries, 1927-1940  -- Genie Guerard; title: The spirited freedom of Norma Gould (1888-1980)  -- Naima Prevots; title: Subcultures within the L. A. art world, 1970-1980  -- Richard Hertz -- Santa Barbara; title: Mountain Drive : bohemian renaissance in the Santa Barbara hills  -- Katherine Stewart -- Malibu/Topanga Beach; title: Idlers of the Bamboo Grove  -- Pablo Capra; title: Bohemianism and the California surfer  -- Kristin Lawler; title: Bohemia in Malibu : a hidden treasure  -- Jay Ruby -- Venice; title: Space/time and the radical image : Wallace Berman's 'Semina'  -- Harry Polkinhorn; title: When a coterie meets the carnival : the poets of Venice west as the neo-anarchists of a mid-century Bohemia  -- William Mohr -- Laurel Canyon; title: Hippies, weirdies, and leftists : counterculture and carnival in Los Angeles -- Rachel Rubin.