LEADER 04697nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910495957703321 005 20230828223914.0 010 $a0-585-16237-9 035 $a(CKB)111004366713036 035 $a(MH)007272615-6 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000214719 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12031060 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214719 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10167362 035 $a(PQKB)11084685 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366713036 100 $a19950712d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOn the edge of America $eCalifornia modernist art, 1900-1950 /$fedited by Paul Karlstrom$b[electronic resource] 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 308 p., [8] p. of plates )$cill. (some col.) ; 300 $a"In association with the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco." 311 $a0-520-08850-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe elusive quest of the moderns / Richard Cándida Smith -- Painting under the shadow : California modernism and the Second World War / Susan Landauer -- Politics and modernism : the trial of the Rincon Annex murals / Gray Brechin -- The impact from abroad : foreign guests and visitors / Peter Selz -- Mexican art and Los Angeles, 1920-1940 / Margarita Nieto -- Wood studs, stucco, and concrete : native and imported images / David Gebhard -- Early modernism in Southern California : provincialism or eccentricity? / Bram Dijkstra -- Journey into the sun : California artists and surrealism / Susan M. Anderson -- Visual music and film-as-an-art before 1950 / William Moritz -- Modernist photography and the Group f.64 / Therese Thau Heyman. 330 $aTo many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the nation. Identified almost exclusively with Hollywood and popular culture, the entire region has been denied a meaningful relationship to mainstream twentieth-century modernism. This groundbreaking collection emphatically challenges that assumption. In essays about California art during the first half of the century, the contributors evoke a culture, now recognizable as modernist, that reflects the actual circumstances of contemporary West Coast artistic experience in all its richness. The subjects include painting, murals, sculpture, film, photography, and architecture. The issue of regionalism is central to this remarkable collection. How do we build a cultural portrait of an area that reveals its distinctive character while recognizing its participation in the larger art historical framework? Through the essays runs the theme of an alternative culture that transformed modernism to suit its own regional imperatives. Compelled by a sense of distance and the need for reinvention, California artists created traditions for a new cultural landscape and society. On the Edge of America is an enlightening and visually exciting addition to the growing literature on California art and culture. Through its fresh and expanded view of modernism, it is also well suited to the formulation of a truly national cultural narrative, one that embraces the edges as well as the center of American creative life. Publishers's description. 517 $aOn the edge of America 517 3 $aCalifornia modernist art, 1900-1950 606 $aModernism (Art)$zCalifornia 606 $aArt, American$zCalifornia 606 $aArt, Modern$y20th century$zCalifornia 606 $aArt, American$zCalifornia$y20th century 606 $aModernism (Art)$y20th century$zCalifornia 606 $aArt, American$zCalifornia 606 $aVisual Arts$2HILCC 606 $aArt, Architecture & Applied Arts$2HILCC 606 $aVisual Arts - General$2HILCC 615 0$aModernism (Art) 615 0$aArt, American 615 0$aArt, Modern 615 0$aArt, American 615 0$aModernism (Art) 615 0$aArt, American 615 7$aVisual Arts 615 7$aArt, Architecture & Applied Arts 615 7$aVisual Arts - General 676 $a709/.794/09041 701 $aKarlstrom$b Paul J$01202151 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bMH-FA 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495957703321 996 $aOn the edge of America$92866717 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress