Art and the city civic imagination and cultural authority in los angeles places this celebrated arrival in the richer context of art controversies and political contests over modern art and art spaces in the twentieth century the ferus gallerys pop infused la look and finish fetish now synonymous with los angeless postwar modernist aesthetics emerged from a dispersed art community that struggled in the 1950s to find a toehold in a local scene reeling from the censure of the . Art and the city civic imagination and cultural authority in los angelesplaces this celebrated arrival in the richer context of art controversies and political contests over modern art and art spaces in the twentieth century the ferus gallerys pop infused la look and finish fetish now synonymous with los angeless postwar modernist aesthetics emerged from a dispersed art community that struggled in the 1950s to find a toehold in a local scene reeling from the censure of the . Art and the city civic imagination and cultural authority in los angeles places this celebrated arrival in the richer context of art controversies and political contests over modern art and art spaces in the twentieth century the ferus gallerys pop infused la look and finish fetish now synonymous with los angeless postwar modernist aesthetics emerged from a dispersed art community that struggled in the 1950s to find a toehold in a local scene reeling from the censure of the . Covering the period of los angeless biggest metropolitan growth from the start of the twentieth century through the 1960s sarah schranks richly detailed art. In art and the city civic imagination and cultural authority in los angeles historian sara schrank documents the role of visual art in provoking such reactionary political forces throughout the history of twentieth century los angeles she locates moments when artists and progressive arts professionals challenged the image of los angeles that had been carefully crafted by civic boosters as a city free of the troubling complexities of race class and politics ever present in the old