A
Abandoned (Sheets), 171
abandonment, theme of, 47 -48
Abstract American Artists, 163
Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States , 42 , 203 n.2, 285
abstract classicism, 42 , 62 ., 202
abstract expressionism, 4 , 15 n.5, 25 , 66 -67n.76;
anticlassicism of, 57 ;
compositional fragmentation in, 43 ;
dark variants of, 58 ;
exhibitions at California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 114 -15;
exhibitions at San Francisco Museum of Art, 114 -15;
gestural painting, 236 ;
and marginalization of Mexican art, 122 ;
origins in European surrealism, 183 ;
as politically noncommittal, 55 ;
rejection of surrealist automatism, 202 ;
as a response to horror, 55 , 58 -59, 65 n.51;
rise of, 42 ;
as shaped by war, 55 -61;
universality in, 49 ;
use of red and black in, 43 . See also California School of Fine Arts; New York School
abstract formalism, 193
abstraction, 4 ;
allegories of strife and despair, 45 ;
drip-trail, 164 ;
formalist, 62 ;
geometric, 57 ;
hard-edge, 42 , 62 , 202 ;
and individual imagination, 43 ;
kinetic, 13 ;
in public places, 85 -86;
unity and purity in, 4 . See also abstract expressionism; California School of Fine Arts
abstract surrealism, 196
abyss, theme of, 194 -95
academic realism, 164 -65
academic tradition, 70
Academy of Modern Art (Hollywood), 280
Adams, Ansel, 251 , 252 , 254 , 256 , 259 , 268 n.15;
on art for art's sake, 264 ;
exhibition at An American Place gallery, 283 ;
The Golden Gate before the Bridge, San Francisco, California , 253 ;
on Group f.64, 253 -54
Adams, Laura, 259
adobe, 142 , 144
Adorno, Theodor, 284
Adventure (Mathews), 87
Aesthetic Function in Space (Merrild), 188
aesthetics vs. function, 140 , 142
African and Negro Art (Museum of Modern Art, New York City), 108
African art, 167
Agee, William C., 123
Aiken, Robert H., 146 , 148
Aimless Walk (Hammid), 222
Albers, Josef, 112
Albright, Thomas, xv
Aldrin, Anders, 6 , 7
Alexander, William, 269 n.33
Alinder, James, 252
Alinder, Mary, 268 n.15
Allan, Sidney (pseud . of Sadakichi Hartmann), 126 , 279
Allegretto (Fischinger), 224
Allen, Harris C., 144
All the News (Vogel), 235
Alpha and Omega (Merrild), 188 , 189
Alvarez, Mabel, 26 -27, 27
American Artists Congress, 191
American Beauty, or the Movie Star (Merrild), 2
American Contemporary Gallery (Los Angeles), 212 , 233 , 238
American Legion, 79 , 82
American Negro (Guston and Kadish), 281
American Painters and Sculptors (Los Angeles Museum), 170
An American Place gallery (New York City), 256
American Scene painting, 182 , 184 . See also regionalism
Amor, Inés, 125
anarchism, 55
Anderson, Antony, 274
Anderson, Jeremy, 206 n.36
Anderson, Perry, 33 -34
Anderson, Susan, 13 -14
Angarola, Anthony, 170
Angel's Flight (Sheets), 171
Anger, Kenneth, 233 ;
Fireworks , 223 ;
inauguration of the Pleasure Dome,214
animation, 238
Ansel Adams at 683 Brockhurst (Willard Van Dyke), 251
Anthony House (Los Angeles; Maybeck), 152 -53
anthropomorphism, topographical, 163
anticlassicism, 57
antimodernism, 25
Anywhere out of the World (Murphy), 212
Aphrodite (Murphy), 212
arcades (Venice, Calif.; Marsh and Russell), 3
Archipenko, Alexander, 110 , 282
architecture, 139 -55;
adobe, 142 , 144 ;
bungalows, 141 , 141 -43;
as central to modernism, 8 ;
function versus aesthetics, 140 , 142 ;
"game of images," 10 ;
illusions of contrast and contradictions, 140 , 152 -53;
industrial, linearity of, 169 ;
and mathematics. 140 , 142 , 143 ;
Mediterranean/Hispanic revival, 144 (see also141 , 144 );
mission revival, 140 , 142 , 144 , 151 , 152 ;
pre-Columbian-style, 141 ;
pueblos, 141 ;
Santa Fe-style, 141 ;
stucco, 142 , 144 ;
symbolism in, 143 ;
terra-cotta tile blocks, 149 ;
traditionalism, 139 , 144 . See also concrete construction
Archives of American Art, xv
Arensberg, Walter and Louise, 97 , 124 , 280 ;
European modernist collection of, 183 , 187 , 204 n.5;
relationship with Duchamp and Man Ray, 99 , 191 , 205 n.19
Argonauts (Beckmann), 116
Argus, 280
Arledge, Sara Kathryn: "The Experimental Film: A New Art in Transition," 236 ;
Introspection , 235 , 235 -36
Armfield, Maxwell, 151
Armitage, Merle, 4
Armory Show (New York City), 97 , 98 , 123 , 161 , 164 , 192
Arnautoff, Victor, 73 , 79 ;
Metropolitan Lift , 105 , 106
Arneson, Robert, 62
Arp, Jean, 193
Arroyo Guild of Fellow Craftsmen, 275
art: as freedom, 57 ;
as originating in problem solving, 24
Art Autre, 11
Art Center (San Francisco; formerly , Modern Gallery), 279
Art Center School (Los Angeles), 227 , 281
Art Commission, 106
Art Digest , 67 n.80
art history, marginalization of, 5
Art in Cinema festivals (San Francisco Museum of Art), 203 , 233 , 236 , 285
Art Institute of Chicago, 66 -67n.76
Artists Equity Association, 83
Artland Club (Los Angeles), 279
The Art of Edward Weston (E. Weston), 256 -57, 263
Art of This Century gallery (Los Angeles), 102
Arts and Architecture , 139
Arts and Crafts movement, 143 , 149
The Arts and Crafts of Mexico (McDowell Club; Los Angeles), 126
Arts and Crafts Society of Southern California, 279
Arts Club of Chicago, 125
Art Students League of Los Angeles, 275
Art Students' League of San Pedro, 280
Art Teachers Association of California, 277
Ashcan painting, 275
Ashton, Dore, 4
Asian art, 167
assemblage form, 30
Associated American Artists, 285
Associated Artists of San Diego (later Contemporary Artists of San Diego), 280
Associated Farmers of California, 82
Atherton, Gertrude, 86
At Land (Deren), 223
Atterbury, Grosvenor: Forest Hills Garden (Long Island), 144
At the Sign of the Grasshopper bookstore (Los Angeles), 103 , 279
Austin, Charles, 163
authoritarianism, 56 -57
Automatic Hitler Kicking Machine (Goldberg), 52 , 64 n.30
automatism, 13 , 182 , 193 , 196 , 197 ;
calligraphy, 203 ;
criticism of, 202 , 208 n.65;
exploration of chance, 206 n.41