The modern moves west : California artists and democratic culture in the twentieth century
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The modern moves west : California artists and democratic culture in the twentieth century
（The arts and intellectual life in modern America）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
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 his project were virtually nonexistent. Each of his limitations-whether of materials, real estate, finances, or his own education-passed through his creative imagination to become a positive element in his work. In The Modern Moves West, accomplished cultural historian Richard Candida Smith contends that the Watts Towers provided a model to succeeding California artists that was no longer defined through a subordinate relationship to the artistic capitals of New York and Paris.
Tracing the development of abstract painting, assemblage art, and efforts to build new arts institutions, Candida Smith lays bare the tensions between the democratic and professional sides of modern and contemporary art as California developed a distinct regional cultural life. Men and women from groups long alienated-if not forcibly excluded-from the worlds of "high culture" made their way in, staking out their participation with images and objects that responded to particular circumstances as well as dilemmas of contemporary life, in the process changing the public for whom art was made. Beginning with the emergence of modern art in nineteenth-century France and its influence on young Westerners and continuing through to today's burgeoning border art movement along the U.S.-Mexican frontier, The Modern Moves West dramatically illustrates the paths that California artists took toward a more diverse and inclusive culture.
目次
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Dilemmas of Professional Culture
1. The Case for Modern Art as a Distinct Form of Knowledge
2. Modern Art in a Provincial Nation
3. Modern Art and California's Progressive Legacies
4. From an Era of Grand Ambitions
5. Becoming Postmodern
6. California Assemblage: Art as Counterhistory
7. Learning from the Watts Towers
8. Contemporary Art Along the U.S.-Mexican Border
Conclusion: Improvising from the Margins
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
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