{"id":4153,"date":"2016-06-16T14:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T21:41:23","slug":"unruly-bodies-dismantling-larry-clarks-tulsa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/unruly-bodies-dismantling-larry-clarks-tulsa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unruly Bodies: Dismantling Larry Clark’s Tulsa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UNRULY BODIES<\/b><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dismantling Larry Clark\u2019s Tulsa<\/b><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"June 10, 2016-January 28, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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EXHIBITION PREVIEW: <\/b>6-9pm, Thursday, June 9<\/div>\n
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The California Museum of Photography presents Unruly Bodies: Dismantling Larry Clark\u2019s Tulsa<\/i>, on view at the museum from June 10 through January 28, 2017, featuring works from the museum\u2019s permanent collection. The exhibition is guest curated by graduate students from the Department of the History of Art and the Public History Program as advised by Susan Laxton, Assistant Professor of the History of Art at UCR. Unruly Bodies <\/i>will be celebrated during a free public reception on Thursday, June 9, 6-9pm, and will be accompanied by public programming and a publication of student writing.<\/p>\n

This exhibition is a historically informed reassessment of the artist Larry Clark\u2019s controversial first book, Tulsa <\/i>(1971), a set of 50 images depicting a tight circle of friends and drug addicts in Tulsa, Oklahoma, photographed over a span of nine years (1963-71) by one of their number, Clark himself. On first appearing, the expos\u00e9<\/i> was hailed as \u201ca devastating portrait of an American tragedy\u201d and embraced as an artistic watershed of participant observer-oriented personal documentary. Yet in spite of its anthropological connotations, the story Tulsa<\/i> tells is the product of a tightly constructed, nearly cinematic narrative of descent from teenage experimentation to a drug-fueled haze of chaos, violence, exploitation, and death \u2014 a \u201cslippery slope\u201d sequence that tells us what we already want to believe about the self-destructive countercultures of the 1960s. This exhibition seeks to recover some of the untold counter-stories that live in the interstices between these affectively charged images, by loosening them from Clark\u2019s sequence and opening them to multiple interpretations that address Tulsa<\/i>\u2019s historical conditions of production and reception.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

UCR ARTSblock is located at 3824 & 3834 Main Steet, Riverside, CA 92501, and encompasses three venues: the California Museum of Photography, Culver Center of the Arts, and Sweeney Art Gallery. ARTSBlock is open Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5pm. Admission is $3, and includes entry to all three venues. Galleries are open late and admission is free during First Thursday ArtWalks, which take place on the first Thursday of every month, 6-9pm.<\/h5>\n

Image: Larry Clark, Untitled<\/i>, 1963 (detail), from the series \u201cTulsa,\u201d 1963-71; Collection of the California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock, 1983.0064.0005 \u00a9 Larry Clark, Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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