The Modern Moves West : : California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century / / Richard Cándida Smith, Richard Candida Smith.
In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts Towers. Rodia created a work that was original, even though the resources available to support hi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 35 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Illustrations
- Introduction. Dilemmas of Professional Culture
- Chapter One. The Case for Modern Art as a Distinct Form of Knowledge
- Chapter Two. Modern Art in a Provincial Nation
- Chapter Three. Modern Art and California's Progressive Legacies
- Chapter Four. From an Era of Grand Ambitions
- Chapter Five. Becoming Postmodern
- Chapter Six. California Assemblage Art as Counterhistory
- Chapter Seven. Learning from the Watts Towers
- Chapter Eight. Contemporary Art Along the U.S.-Mexican Border
- Conclusion. Improvising from the Margins
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments