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Lives of the Imaginary Artists in Cold War California.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinberg, Monica.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imaginary biography.
- Twenty-first century in art.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (485 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- How artists created fictionalized identities to realize works that resisted political overreach and art historical conventions. This book explores how a group of real California artists created imaginary artists, engaging with the political climate of the Cold War era and frustrating the discipline of art history.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Imaginary Lives
- On Pseudoautonymy: Maurice Syndell
- On Obfuscation: Wally Hedrick
- On Fictional Creativity: George Herms and Wallace Berman
- On Role-Playing: Billy Al Bengston, Edward Ruscha, Joe Goode, and
- Lynda Benglis
- On Doubling: Larry Bell and Judy Chicago
- On Historical Fictions: Eleanor Antin
- Conclusion: Imaginary Afterlives.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-83964-8
- 9780226839646
- OCLC:
- 1569919402
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