Bohemian Highways: Art & Culture Abide Then Divide Along the California Coast - Softcover

Ted Wells; Theodore Roszak; Josef Chytry; James Diego Vigil; Brian Chidester; Craig Lockwood; Erik Davis; Colette Gaiter; John Graham; Jeffrey Kripal; Walter Medeiros; Janferie Stone; Cal Winslow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991134915 ISBN 13: 9780991134915

Publisher: Guardian Stewardship Editions, 2015

Synopsis

After World War II and to the early 1980s, artists, writers, architects, performers, spiritual seekers, freethinkers, political dissenters, and social revolutionists gathered in California, intent on creating a new way of seeing and interacting with the world. The result was an unstoppable counterculture that blazed its way across the American tableau, forever changing the national and international spirt of art and culture.

  Learn more about the fascinating individuals and groups who created an art, architecture, music, and, often, a productive creative mayhem along the entire Pacific coast, from the remote reaches of northern California, south to the beaches of San Diego.

Bohemian Highways is published in conjunction with the 2015 California Preservation Foundation Annual Conference.

About this title

About the Author:

Brian Chidester is a regular contributor to The American Prospect, L.A. Weekly, and the Village Voice. Author of Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Era (Santa Monica Press, 2008).

Josef Chytry is Senior Adjunct Professor in Critical Studies at California College of the Arts in Oakland/San Francisco. Author of Unis vers Cythère: Aesthetic-Political Investigations in Polis Thought and the Artful Firm (Peter Lang, 2009) and many other books.

Erik Davis Author of The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape (Chronicle Books, 2006) and other books. Hosts the podcast Expanding Mind on the Progressive Radio Network.

Colette Gaiter, University of Delaware Associate Professor of Art, is a multimedia artist, graphic designer, and writer. Her writing on the Black Panther artist Emory Douglas has appeared in several publications, including Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas (Rizzoli, 2007).

John Graham Writer, visual artist, and researcher. Work has appeared at the San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Castro Theatre, and Frumkin/Duval Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. Author of Comparing Religions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014) and many other books.

Craig Lockwood Award-winning journalist and correspondent who grew up surfing in Laguna Beach and began writing about Southern California culture in the 1960s. Author of Peanuts: An Oral Biography (Croul Family Foundation, 2009).

Walter Medeiros Architect, independent researcher, archivist, author, editor, curator, and lecturer on the psychedelic art and culture of the San Francisco region, from its origins in the 1950s to the 1970s and beyond.

Theodore Roszak (1933-2011) taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, and San Francisco State University before becoming Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. Best known for his 1969 nonfiction title, The Making of a Counter Culture (which introduced the term counterculture to worldwide audience).

Janferie Stone has taught Native American studies and anthropology at many levels of the California education system. Her essays have been published in Sustainable Feminisms: Advances in Gender Research (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2007) and Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field (University of Nebraska Press, 2007).

Ted Wells Author, designer, historian, and the Creative Director of Guardian Stewardship Editions. His books include Casting Shadows: Auguste Rodin (2013) and Bohemian Crossroads: Art & Culture Collide Then Subside in the Monterey Peninsula (2014), both by Guardian Stewardship Editions. He has also contributed chapters to Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty (Chronicle Books, 2014) and Future Perfect: A History of the University of Southern California School of Architecture (USC Guild Press, 2015).

Cal Winslow Social historian, Fellow in Environmental Politics at University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Mendocino Institute. Author of Labor s Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers Rebellion (PM Press, 2010) and other books.

James Diego Vigil Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at University of California, Irvine. Author of From Indians to Chicanos: The Dynamics of Mexican American Culture (Waveland Press Inc., 2012) and many other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Guardian Stewardship Editions
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0991134915
• ISBN 13: 9780991134915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 536
• Editor: Ted Wells, Kathleen Combs, Rich Cronin