Cecile Whiting, "California War Babies: Picturing World War II in the 1960s"

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Pop LA
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Cécile Whiting received the Eldredge Prize in honor of her book, Pop LA. The book is recognized for its impeccable yet adventurous research that invites the reconceptualization of pop art. Whiting examines what pop art looked like when it left Manhattan’s art galleries and ventured westward to the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles.

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Additional Books
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Cecile Whiting wrote Antifascism in American Art in 1989 and A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture in 1997 as well as many other articles.

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Henry T. Hopkins, 1928-2009
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Henry T. Hopkins opened the art exhibition Art Babies in the Huysman Gallery in 1961. This show featured the artists Ed Bereal, Larry Bell, Joe Goode, and Ron Miyashiro.

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Pictures from TIME Magazine
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TIME Magazine printed many pictures and articles on World War II and the technology used during the war.

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Was Hiroshima Necessary?
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Journalists continued to question the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima decades after the war. As scholars began to write books about the atomic bomb, new insights sprung into the media's spotlight. TIME Magazine published an article in 1960 concerning "new evidence" about the end of WWII.

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FW 109
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Displaying excellent maneuverability and typically carrying a heavy armament of two machine guns, two 20-mm cannons on the wing roots, and two 20-mm cannons at mid-wing, the Fw 190 became the outstanding air-to-air fighter of the mid-war period according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Dachau Concentration Camp
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Dachau one of the first concentration camps established by the Nazis. The camp was located in the small town of Dachau until April of 1945 when the camp was liberated by United States armed forces.

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Pearl Harbor
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The Japanese raided Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This attack removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese. Thus the United States was brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

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Hiroshima Mon Amour
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Hiroshima Mon Amour is a French film from 1959 directed by Alain Resnais.

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The Smithsonian American Art Museum awarded the 2009 Charles C. Eldredge Prize [1] for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Cécile Whiting for her book /Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s/ (University of California Press, 2006). Whiting is chair of the department of art history and a member of the faculty in the graduate program in visual studies at the University of California, Irvine. In celebration of her award, Whiting presents the annual Eldredge Prize lecture, California War Babies: Picturing World War II in the 1960s. [1] http://americanart.si.edu/research/awards/eldredge/

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