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Yestermorrow : obvious answers to impossible futures
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
Katie Paterson's Future Library is a large scale public art project commissioned by Bjørvika Utvikling in Oslo, Norway as part of the Slow Space public art program. For the next century it will exist in two forms--as a print, and as 1,000 trees. The texts will be held in a specially designed room in the New Public Deichmanske Library, Oslo. The first writer to contribute was Margaret Atwood. This work consists of one original, signed and stamped certificate of authenticity, one archival letter, signed by the artist, and a final anthology of 100 texts printed on paper made from the forest in Nordmarka grown for Future Library to be released in 2114. The anthology cannot be collected without the archival letter signed by the artist and a copy of the certificate.
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Manuscripts
Public appearances (speeches, remarks, panels, and conferences) made by Lozano from 2014 to 2018. Highlights include notes, agendas, program booklets, PowerPoint presentation slides, and correspondence. The public appearances include the Center for American Progress—Mexico City, Future of Cities Summit in Los Angeles, Women of Color in Communications Conference, and the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy (CPPP) Forum. There are also reference files and reports about interethnic relations in Los Angeles.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: "Hollywood" celebrity coverage; Mayor Norris Poulson; moving expenses for Arch Parsons (1964); Don Bruckner reprints; controversy over an illustration depicting Cain and Abel seen by some as demeaning to Negros; the future of the UC and State College systems; John L. Perry--public opinion pollster; tension and war in the Middle East and Vietnam; etc.
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Visual Materials
This collection consists of photographs of billboards located in situ primarily in and around Los Angeles and, to a lesser extent, San Diego, from approximately 1930-1996 (bulk 1950-1989). The photographs, which are principally color slides (35mm) and film negatives (both black-and-white and color), were created by Pacific Outdoor Advertising Company (POA) and Gannett Outdoor Company for internal purposes and represent advertising for a wide variety of businesses, consumer products, and services, including beverages (many for beer and liquor); food; cigarettes and tobacco; transportation (especially automobiles, airlines and bus lines); hotels; restaurants; motion pictures; charitable and non-profit organizations, including regional cities and civic campaigns; political candidates for local and state elections; public service announcements (such as air raid and Cold War-related ads); radio and television stations; oil and gasoline companies; cemeteries; clothing companies; department stores; recreational facilities; and other commercial, political, civic, and institutional clients. In addition, there are images related primarily to Pacific Outdoor Advertising (POA) Company operations such as client presentations, billboard production and installation, corporate facilities and the POA helicopter. Aerial views taken throughout Southern California document the various markets in which the company placed signage.
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News from Nowhere combines utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work.
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News from Nowhere combines utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work.
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