Klein, Norman M.

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KLEIN, Norman M.

KLEIN, Norman M. American, b. 1945. Genres: Art/Art history. Career: Educator and author. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, professor in European studies, popular culture, and writing, 1974-. KCET, Los Angeles, series advisor, Los Angeles History Project, 1989-90; Art Issues, contributing editor, 1989-; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, associate curator of "Conflicting Promises" exhibition, 1994. Publications: Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon, 1993; The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory, 1997. EDITOR: (with R. Hertz) Twentieth-Century Art Theory: Urbanism, Politics, Mass Culture, 1990; (with M.J. Schiesl) Twentieth-Century Los Angeles: Power, Promotion, and Social Conflict, 1990. Address: School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 91355, U.S.A.