The Modern Moves West : California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cándida Smith, Richard
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Art and society > California > History > 20th century.
Art, American > California > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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