The modern moves west : California artists and democratic culture in the twentieth century /

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"In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts Towers. Rodia created a work that was original, even though the resources available to supp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cándida Smith, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Colección:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
Temas:
1900-1999
Art and society > California > History > 20th century.
Art, American > California > 20th century.
Art et société > Californie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Art américain > Californie > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Art, American
Art and society
California
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: dilemmas of professional culture
  • The case for modern art as a distinct form of knowledge
  • Modern art in a provincial nation
  • Modern art and California's progressive legacies
  • From an era of grand ambitions
  • Becoming postmodern
  • California assemblage: art as counter-history
  • Learning from the Watts Towers
  • Contemporary art along the U.S.-Mexican border
  • Conclusion: improvising from the margins.

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