Explore the Era

Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists.

UC San Diego

Full Jar, Empty Jar performance at Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego

Full Jar, Empty Jar performance at Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, 1974, Barbara T. Smith. © Barbara T. Smith

UC San Diego was one of the newer and more radical University of California campuses in the 1960s. The visual arts department at UC San Diego attracted artists such as Eleanor and David Antin, Martha Rosler, Newton and Helen Harrison, and Allan Kaprow.

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Works of Art

  • 100 Boots

    100 Boots, 1971–73, Eleanor Antin. Halftone reproductions on 51 cards. 4 ½ x 7 in. each. The Getty Research Institute, 2011.M.23, 2006.M.24, 890164, and 2009.M.5 (Gift of Hal Glicksman). © Eleanor Antin. Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York