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” Art Has No History

the audience for the arts remained a privileged minority

headed at the time by Palmiro Togliatti

In this compelling and crucial account

made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of readers

City of Quartz keyword-daniel-bensaid ” Art Has No HistoryNo metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have