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Article: Sam Durant. (Preview).(Brief Article)
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- Artforum International
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- September 1, 2002
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MOCA AT CALIFORNIA PLAZA, LOS ANGELES
Nineteen sixty-eight: a year of global unrest and seismic shivers. Where better to ride the wave than in golden California? Steel-and-glass boxes perched above LA, the Case Study Houses, remnants of one of the great experiments in modern architecture, lie in ruins--trashed by a ragtag family of squatters? Charles Eames meets Charles Manson: That's one way of relating the nightmarish scene imagined in a series of architectural models titled "Abandoned Houses," 1995, by Sam Durant, an artist for whom the dreams of both modernism and hippie idealism are the stuff of myth and memory.
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