{"id":2709,"date":"2016-10-17T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T17:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:14:55","slug":"unruly-bodies-dismantling-larry-clarks-tulsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/unruly-bodies-dismantling-larry-clarks-tulsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Unruly Bodies: Dismantling Larry Clark&#8217;s Tulsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"book-title\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2710 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/UB_UCR_Cover_Final-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"ub_ucr_cover_final\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artsblock.ucr.edu\/Exhibition\/unruly-bodies\">Unruly Bodies: Dismantling Larry Clark&#8217;s Tulsa<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"book-publisher\">Riverside: California Museum of Photography, 2016<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/faculty\/susan-laxton\/\"><span class=\"book-author\">Susan Laxton, editor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Between 1963 and 1971, the photographer Larry Clark shot and filmed his close group of friends, drug addicts in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When the images were published as the photo book <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><i>Tulsa<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (1971), the pictures seared the wholesome image of the American heartland with graphic depictions of sex, drugs, and violence. Clark&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><i>expos\u00e9<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> was regarded alternately as a wretched narrative of the decline of American youth, accomplished at the expense of the bodies it represented, and welcomed as an artistic watershed of participant observer-oriented personal documentary valued for the photographer&#8217;s privileged access to hidden subcultures. Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the California Museum of Photography,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><i>Unruly Bodies<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> seeks to remix Clark\u2019s original story into a critical exhibition that moves beyond sensationalism toward examining the implications of such a photographic project for contemporary life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unruly Bodies: Dismantling Larry Clark&#8217;s Tulsa Riverside: California Museum of Photography, 2016 Susan Laxton, editor Between 1963 and 1971, the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/unruly-bodies-dismantling-larry-clarks-tulsa\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-books","category-susan-laxton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}