Welcome to Painterland - Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-520-28945-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aukeman, Anastasia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.