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The modern moves west : California artists and democratic culture in the twentieth century / Richard Cándida Smith.
LIBRA N6530.C2 C36 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cándida Smith, Richard.
- Series:
- Arts and intellectual life in modern America
- The arts and intellectual life in modern America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, American--California--20th century.
- Art, American.
- Art and society--California--History--20th century.
- Art and society.
- History.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- x, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812241884
- 0812241886
- OCLC:
- 320800008
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