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The Modern Moves West : California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century /
Tracing the development of abstract painting, assemblage art, and efforts to build new arts institutions, Cándida Smith lays bare the tensions between the democratic and professional sides of modern and contemporary art as California developed a distinct regional cultural life. Men and women from g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2009
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| Colección: | Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| 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.