Words from Los Angeles 1965.

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Words from Los Angeles 1965.

1988

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This unique artist's book was created by the California artist Sam Erenberg from files of newspaper clippings with cartoons and textual jokes collected by his father Arthur Erenberg (died 1980), who was an American joke writer for television and radio personalities. The original pages with archival clippings glued and collaged, with sections crossed out in pencil, are by Arthur Erenberg. The words painted in gouache over the collaged clippings are by Sam Erenberg. Sandra Liddell Reese of Turkey Press in Isla Vista, California, built the hand-made box. The painted words recall the time of the Watts Insurrection of 1965, when Sam Erenberg was a student at the Chouinard Art Institute, and lived and worked in a studio on the corner of Adams and Hill in Los Angeles, at the border of the curfew zone established by the LAPD.

1 volume (approximately 150 pages) : illustrations (cartoons), goauche, collaged newsprint ; 28 x 21.5 cm in box 30 x 25.5 cm.

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Erenberg, Sam

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American artist Sam Erenberg is a painter, bookmaker, filmmaker, and installation and performance artist. Born in 1943, he grew up in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. His interest in art began after being inspired by exhibitions of Salvador Dali and hard-edge painting during the early 1960s. He enrolled in the Chouinard Art Institute (now known as the California Institute of the Arts) to study painting in 1965, and it was there that he met his wife, Elena Mary Siff. In ...