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Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association

Anastasia Aukeman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2016
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520289451 (ISBN)

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The Rat Bastard Protective Association was an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists who lived and worked in a building they dubbed Painterland in the Fillmore neighborhood of midcentury San Francisco. This book presents new and little-known archival material in this authorized account of these artists and their circle..

The Rat Bastard Protective Association was an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists who lived and worked in a building they dubbed Painterland in the Fillmore neighborhood of midcentury San Francisco. The artists who counted themselves among the Rat Bastards-which included Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, Michael McClure, and Manuel Neri - exhibited a unique fusion of radicalism, provocation, and community. Geographically isolated from a viable art market and refusing to conform to institutional expectations, they animated broader social and artistic discussions through their work and became a transformative part of American culture over time. Anastasia Aukeman presents new and little-known archival material in this authorized account of these artists and their circle, a colorful cultural milieu that intersected with the broader Beat scene.

Anastasia Aukeman is an art historian and curator who teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City. She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and written articles and reviews for Art in America, Art on Paper, and ARTnews, among other publications.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. California Modernism after World War II 2. The Art of Assemblage, New York-- San Francisco 3. Rat Bastards in Painterland * 4. Artist-Run Galleries of the Fillmore 5. The Rat Bastard Protective Association and the Making of Assemblage 6. "Woodshedding" Years: The RBPA into the 1960s Conclusion Appendix: A Chronology of the Rat Bastard Protective Association and the California Arts Scene, 1944-- 1968 Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.08.2016
Zusatzinfo	53 color photographs, 57 b-w i
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9780520289451 / 9780520289451
Zustand	Neuware