Exploring Legend, Myth and Archetype in California Surfing's Subculture: George Peanuts Larson was first a legend, then a myth, and finally a surfing archetype. His importance to today's surfing culture is best described as seminal. Simultaneously oral biography and near history, the book spans the years that stretch from 1930 to 1960. Larson called this period : ...the way it's never gonna be again. Coming of age during the Great Depression, Larson created what would become identifiable as a distinctly surfer persona long before there was a media to extol or exploit it. Author Craig Lockwood creates a sense of Larson's provincial California before and after WW II centering on an individual who was greater than the sum of his parts.

Peanuts: An Oral Biography

Sports & Outdoors

Craig Lockwood

Water Sports

Croul Family Foundation

There is an amazing diversity of artistic style and creativity to be found in the body of work by Southern Californian Bill Ogden. While Ogden is best known perhaps for his surf-related cartoons of the early 60s, his psychedelic posters from the later part of the decade and his tropical fantasies of the 70s, his fine art oil paintings of seascapes, desert scenes and mountain wilderness are simply stunning. From brilliantly conceived and masterfully crafted seascape and landscape oil paintings to whimsical sketches and cosmic creations, much of Ogden's art hasn't been seen by most people since it hangs on the walls of a few private collectors. One memorable exception is the famous poster for the mid-70s surf film, The Forgotten Island of Santosha. With text by Craig Lockwood, a Foreword by former Laguna Beach Art Museum director Bolton Colburn, an Afterword by contemporary art expert Neight Adamson, and commentary from key figures of the 60s and 70s scene in Laguna Beach, the large-format 12 x12 hardcover book contains 185 images of drawings, posters and paintings.

Ogden: The Visionary Art of Bill Ogden

Arts & Photography

Croul Publications

After World War II and to the early 1980s, artists, writers, architects, performers, spiritual seekers, freethinkers, political dissenters, and social revolutionists gathered in California, intent on creating a new way of seeing and interacting with the world. The result was an unstoppable counterculture that blazed its way across the American tableau, forever changing the national and international spirt of art and culture. Learn more about the fascinating individuals and groups who created an art, architecture, music, and, often, a productive creative mayhem along the entire Pacific coast, from the remote reaches of northern California, south to the beaches of San Diego.
 Bohemian Highways is published in conjunction with the 2015 California Preservation Foundation Annual Conference.

Bohemian Highways: Art & Culture Abide Then Divide Along the California Coast

Cal Winslow

John, Graham

James Diego Vigil

THEODORE ROSZAK

Erik Davis

Brian Chidester

Ted Wells

Josef Chytry

Colette Gaiter

Jeffrey Kripal

Walter Medeiros

Janferie Stone

Guardian Stewardship Editions

Synthesizing Qualitative Research: Choosing the Right Approach

Karin Hannes

Bmj Publishing Group

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