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Un film di Morgan Neville.
Con Frank Gehry, Robert Irwin, Edward Ruscha, Dean Stockwell
Documentario,
durata 86 min.
- USA 2008.
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 n.d. MYMONETRO® Indice di gradimento medio del film tra pubblico, critica e dizionari + rapporto incassi/sale (n.d.)
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Un documentario che testimonia come un gruppo di artisti siano riusciti a creare una scena artistica moderna a Los Angeles. 
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Birth of Los Angeles Art, Assisted by Hip Midwives
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
“The Cool School,” a breezy, lively documentary about a thin slice of the Los Angeles fine art scene in the 1950s, is easy on the eyes, and the ears too. The focal point of this historical gloss is the Ferus Gallery, which opened in 1957 and soon became a cultural hub with shows dedicated to local talent like Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, Wallace Berman and Ed Kienholz and a then-unknown out-of-towner with a fondness for Campbell’s Soup named Andy Warhol. Near the northern end of the centrally located boulevard called La Cienega (“the swamp” in Spanish), not far from the Sunset Strip, Ferus was founded by Mr. » |
The birth of cool at an L.A. gallery
di Mark Olsen The Los Angeles Times
The Cool School is a vital and essential look at the way scenes are born, the happenstance confluence of people, places and ideas, focusing on the one that sprouted around an art gallery in Los Angeles as the 1950s blossomed into the heady experiments of the '60s. The Ferus Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard, run at its peak by Walter Hopps and Irving Blum, held the first exhibition of Andy Warhol's groundbreaking soup cans, but more notably gave a home to such artists as Ed Kienholz, John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston and Ed Ruscha, who were burgeoning from the expanding cultural nexus of L. » |
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