| Description |
xxvi, 536 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-527) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Modernism transplanted: Innocence of the blank slate: postsurrealism and the reception of European models -- After the war or before?: Kenneth Rexroth confronts history -- Between commerce and imagination: the GI Bill and the emergence of an arts "community" -- Revolution at the California School of Fine Arts: abstract expressionism in San Francisco -- The avant-garde, institution, and subjective shift -- pt. 2. Mythopoesis and self-narration: The Beat phenomenon: masculine paths of maturation -- A woman's path to maturation: Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo and the Rat Bastards -- Utopia and the private realm: Wallace Berman on career, family, and community -- The flame of ambition: public culture in the Kennedy years -- pt. 3. Return to history: The politics of obscenity: professionalism, "free speech", and realignment -- Breaking the pornographic loop: obscenity as politics -- The Vietnam War and the fragmentation of America identity: crises of public and private foundation myths -- Gary Snyder on the responsibilities of Utopia: expanding the boundaries of domesticity -- Eros' double face: Robert Duncan on the limits of Utopia -- Subjectivity between myth and history. |
| Subject |
Arts, American -- California -- 20th century.
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Arts and society -- California.
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| ISBN |
0520085175 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780520085176 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
UKM b9535339 |
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NLGGC 125234406 |
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YDXCP 449786 |
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