Rebels in Paradise (37 page)

12
. Bell, interview with author, September 15, 2007.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Bell, at Ferus panel discussion at the Pacific Design Center. January 31, 2010.

16
. Bell, interview with author, September 15, 2007.

17
. Ibid.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Moses, interview with author, May 5, 2007.

20
. Blum, interview with author, October 8, 2005.

21
. Bell, oral history.

22
. Blum, interview with author, October 8, 2005.

23
. Ibid.

24
. McKenna,
Ferus Gallery
, 203.

25
. Bell, oral history.

26
. Ibid.

27
. Kauffman, interview with author, October 24, 2008.

28
. Barbara Rose, “A New Aesthetic,” in
A New Aesthetic: May 6–June 25, 1967, Washington Gallery of Modern Art
(Baltimore: Garamond-Pridemark Press, 1967), 18.

29
. Bell, interview with author, September 15, 2007.

30
. Bengston, interview with author, March 16, 2007.

31
. Randy Lewis, “Sunset Strip Soul,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 20, 2010.

32
. Bengston, interview with author, March 16, 2007.

33
. John Coplans, “The Los Angeles Scene Today,”
Artforum
, Summer 1965, 37.

34
. Bengston to author, November 16, 2007.

35
. Ibid.

Chapter Seven. Glamour Gains Ground

  
1
. Hopper, interview with author, March 20, 2006.

  
2
. Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, interview with author, May 9, 2007.

  
3
. Ibid.

  
4
. Bell, interview with author, September 15, 2007.

  
5
. Lenny Bruce,
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography
(Chicago: Playboy Press, 1965).

  
6
. Barney Hoskyns,
Waiting for the Sun: A Rock 'n' Roll History of Los Angeles
(Milwaukee: Backbeat Books, 2009), 54.

  
7
. Ibid.

  
8
. Dennis Hopper,
1712 North Crescent Heights: Photographs 1962–1968
, ed. Marin Hopper (Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2001).

  
9
. Hopper, interview with author, March 20, 2006.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Ibid.

12
. Peggy Moffitt, interview with author, July 16, 2005.

13
. Blum, interview with author, October 18, 2005.

14
. Neilsen Blum, interview with author, May 22, 2008.

15
. Henry Hopkins in Hertz,
Beat and the Buzz,
87.

16
. Bell, interview with author, September 15, 2007.

17
. Dan Jenkins, “Life with the Jax Pack,”
Sports Illustrated
, July 10, 1967, SI Vault,
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault
.

18
. Peggy Moffitt,
The Rudi Gernreich Book
(Cologne: Taschen, 1999), 19.

19
. Sassoon's celebrity soared in the United States to the point that, in 1968, he was paid $5,000 for the very short cut he gave to Mia Farrow, who was then married to Frank Sinatra and about to terrify audiences in the Roman Polanski film
Rosemary's Baby
.

Chapter Eight. The Dawn of Dwan

  
1
. Blum, interview with author, October 18, 2005.

  
2
. Oral history interview with Virginia Dwan, March 21–June 7, 1984, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

  
3
. Ibid.

  
4
. Virginia Dwan, interview with author, February 20, 2008.

  
5
. Dwan, oral history.

  
6
. Dwan, interview with author, February 20, 2008.

  
7
. John Baldessari, interview with author, March 26, 2007.

  
8
. Oral history interview with John Baldessari, April 4–5, 1992, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

  
9
. Dwan, interview with author, February 20, 2008.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Michael Blankfort,
The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection
(Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982), 13.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Ibid., 12.

17
. Dwan, oral history.

18
. Arthur Secunda, “Feitelson, Gerchik, Schifrin,”
Artforum
1, no. 2 (July 1962): 23.

19
. Dwan, oral history.

20
. Ibid.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Dwan, interview with author, February 20, 2008.

24
. Ibid.

25
. Ibid.

26
. Dwan, oral history.

27
. Ibid.

28
. Ibid.

29
. Dwan, interview with author, February 20, 2008.

30
. It included Chamberlain's 1962
Rayvredd
, lent by Ferus; Johns's
Flag on Orange Field
, borrowed from Ileana Sonnabend, Rauschenberg's
Coexistance
, 1961, a combine painting lent from Castelli, Warhol's
Marilyn Monroe
, 1962, from the Stable Gallery, Tom Wesselmann's
Great American Nude #10
, 1961, from the Green Gallery; and Marisol's sculpture
The Kennedys
, 1962, lent by the Stable Gallery.

31
. Dwan, oral history.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Dwan, interview with author, February 20, 2008.

34
. Ibid.

35
. Mary Lynch Kienholz, interview with author, July 30, 2010.

36
. Dwan, oral history.

37
. Patty Mucha, “Sewing in the Sixties,”
Clean Slate
, from excerpt in
Art in America
, November 2002, 85.

38
. Ibid.

39
. Ibid.

40
. Oral History Interview with Claes Oldenburg, February 16, 1965, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

41
. Dwan oral history.

42
. Oral History Interview with Claes Oldenburg, February 16, 1965, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

43
. Hopper may have influenced the arrangement, which recalled the way Nicholas Ray staged the cars with headlights on for the drag race in
Rebel Without a Cause
, a film that used L.A.'s Griffith Park Observatory to great effect.

44
. Gail Levin,
Becoming Judy Chicago
(New York: Harmony Books, 2007), 124.

45
. Babs Altoon opened Multiples Gallery on North La Cienega Boulevard in 1971. Dagny Janss worked for her before marrying James Corcoran in 1972. They had a son, Tim, who now lives with Tamara Kondratief, the daughter of Riko Mizuno, the art dealer who married Vadim Kondratief after his divorce from Virginia Dwan.

46
. Edy de Wilde, director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, was staying with Kienholz when LACMA curator Maurice Tuchman called to report that Burt Kleiner was going bankrupt and selling his art collection, including
The Beanery
and
The Backseat Dodge '38.
Kienholz's wife at the time, Lyn Kienholz, recalled, “Ed hung up and turned to Edy and said, ‘If you were smart, you'd buy
The Beanery.
' Then he said to me, ‘If
you
were smart you'd buy
The Backseat Dodge '38.
' Both Edy and I did as we were told, and bought the two works from Kleiner.” Author interview with Lyn Kienholz, October 28, 2010.

47
. Hopps,
Kienholz
, 33.

Chapter Nine. A Bit of British Brilliance: David Hockney

  
1
. David Hockney,
David Hockney by David Hockney
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1976), 34.

  
2
. Ibid., 39.

  
3
. Marco Livingstone,
David Hockney
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981), 23.

  
4
. Hockney,
David Hockney
, 43.

  
5
. Livingstone,
David Hockney
, 21.

  
6
. Hockney,
David Hockney
, 87.

  
7
. Ibid.

  
8
. Ibid., 92.

  
9
. Livingstone, David Hockney, 69.

10
. Hockney, David Hockney, 97.

11
. Ibid., 98.

12
. Ibid., 99.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Ibid., 68.

15
. Livingstone,
David Hockney
, 97.

16
. David Hockney, interview with author, November 6, 2010.

17
. Hockney, David Hockney, 151.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Betty Freeman, interview with author, July 4, 2006.

20
. Ibid.

21
. Hockney,
David Hockney
, 104.

22
. Ibid., 158.

23
. J. Randy Taraborrelli,
Sinatra: Behind the Legend
(New York: Birch Lane Press, 1997), 464–65.

24
. Marcia Simon Weisman,
Collecting, Sharing, and Promoting Contemporary Art in California
(Los Angeles: Regents of the University of California, 1983).

25
. Richard Dorment, “David Hockney: 1960–68, Nottingham Contemporary,”
Telegraph
, December 2–8, 2009.

26
. Livingstone,
David Hockney
, 70.

27
. Mary Lou Luther, “Looking Back at a Futurist,” in Moffitt,
Rudi Gernreich Book
, 14.

28
. Don Bachardy, interview with author, June 29, 2007.

29
. Arthur Secunda,
Artforum
1, no. 6 (1962). The early issues of
Artforum
often did not state a month because the editors were not sure when they would be coming out.

30
. Bachardy, interview with author, June 29, 2007.

31
. Ibid.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Ibid.

34
. Ibid.

Chapter Ten. Wilder Times with Bruce Nauman and Artforum

  
1
. Katherine Bishop Crum,
Nicholas Wilder and His Gallery, 1965–1979
(New York: Franklyn Parrasch Gallery, 2005).

  
2
. Oral history interview with Nicholas Wilder, July 18, 1988, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute.

  
3
. Joe Goode, interview with author, April 7, 2007.

  
4
. Wilder, oral history.

  
5
. Fidel Danieli, “The Art of Bruce Nauman,”
Artforum
, December 1967, 15–17.

  
6
. Nauman lived in Los Angeles until 1979 when he bought a ranch in New Mexico.

  
7
. Goode, interview with author, April 7, 2007.

  
8
. Ibid.

  
9
. Philip Leider, “The Cool School,”
Artforum
, Summer 1964, 47.

10
. Weschler,
Seeing Is Forgetting
, 79.

11
. Coplans, “Post Painterly Abstraction,”
Artforum
, Summer 1964, 6.

12
. Amy Newman,
Challenging Art: “Artforum” 1962–1974
(New York: Soho Press, 2000), 46.

13
. Ibid., 295.

14
. Ibid.

Chapter Eleven. The Ascendency of Irwin's Atmospherics

  
1
. Dagny Corcoran, interview with author, September 21, 2007.

  
2
. Weschler,
Seeing Is Forgetting
, 87.

  
3
. Ibid., 90.

  
4
. Ibid., 78. (Similarly, Ruscha painted the edges of his early large canvases, sometimes labeling them as though they were the spines of books.)

  
5
. Lawrence Weschler describes U.S. political involvement on page 94 of
Seeing Is Forgetting.
It was also mentioned to me by Christopher Knight.

  
6
. Weschler,
Seeing Is Forgetting
, 93.

  
7
. Ibid.

  
8
. Ibid., 95.

  
9
. Ibid.

10
. Ibid., 96.

Chapter Twelve. Set the Night on Fire

  
1
. Ed Bereal, “In Search of Ms. America: An Autobiography of the Watts Years, 1965–75,”
Art and Politics in Los Angeles
, no. 92 (November–December 1992), 18–19, cited in Grenier,
Los Angeles, 1955–1985
, 143.

  
2
. McKenna,
Ferus Gallery
, 207.

  
3
. Neilsen Blum, interview with author, May 22, 2008.

  
4
. Jeffrey Kastner, “1000 Words: Peace Tower; Irving Petlin, Mark di Suvero, and Rirkrit Tiravanija Revisit the Artists' Tower of Protest, 1966,”
Artforum International
44 (March 2006).

  
5
. Ibid.

  
6
. Mark di Suvero, interview with author, January 24, 2008. He went on to build another large-scale sculpture on the lawn of the Pasadena Art Museum that is now on view at Storm King Art Center in New York.

  
7
. Kastner, “1000 Words: Peace Tower.”

  
8
. Lee Quarnstrom, “Acid Test Chronicles,”
http://www.postertrip.com/
.