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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cándida Smith, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
Subjects:
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 counterhistory
  • Learning from the Watts Towers
  • Contemporary art along the U.S.-Mexican border
  • Conclusion: improvising from the margins.