The modern moves west : California artists and democratic culture in the twentieth century /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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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.