Poet Julia Stein offers a lengthy blog ode to Bohemian Los Angeles, Daniel Hurewitz’ new book about the gays, artists and political radicals of Edendale (Silverlake and Echo Park) from the 1920s-50s.
Hurewitz brilliantly shows how these young artists creating both modern art and as well as artistic and literary Los Angeles. Lawrence Powell, friend of the fine printers, was the head of the UCLA library, instrumental in creating it into a brilliant university collection. These artists and book people had to create the very arts institutions as LA lacked such institutions as well as being the radical innovators of their times.
LABrainTerrain explores some of the same topics in her recent ode to Occidental College and in a later post here.
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