The Artist in the Counterculture : : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge / / Thomas Crow.

How California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped—and was shaped by—West Coast artistsThe 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period’s youth culture, largely incubated in California, on artists who came of age in th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 90 color + 52 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: Neuroplasticity
  • One. Peyote frontier
  • Two. Movies and Mexico
  • Three. Boston and the Leary Lure
  • Four. Psychedelphic oracle
  • Five. Living up to their reputations
  • Six. Bearing witness to war
  • Seven. From war abroad to oppression at home
  • Eight. Toward 1970: “the ever-deepening spiral of politics”
  • Nine. The art of disappearance
  • Ten. Noir vortex
  • Eleven. Secret ceremonies
  • Twelve. Last artist of the counterculture
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Illustration and copyright credits