On the Edge of America |
PREFACE |
INTRODUCTION |
![]() | PART I THE REGIONAL IMAGINATION |
• | The Elusive Quest of the Moderns |
![]() | Painting Under the Shadow: California Modernism and the Second World War |
• | Politics and Modernism: The Trial of the Rincon Annex Murals |
![]() | PART 2 SOURCES AND TRADITIONS |
• | The Impact from Abroad: Foreign Guests and Visitors |
• | Mexican Art and Los Angeles, 1920-1940 |
![]() | PART 3 EXPRESSING A CULTURAL IDENTITY |
• | Wood Studs, Stucco, and Concrete: Native and Imported Images |
• | Early Modernism in Southern California: Provincialism or Eccentricity? |
![]() | Journey Into the Sun: California Artists and Surrealism |
• | Visual Music and Film-As-An-Art Before 1950 |
![]() | Modernist Photography and the Group f.64 |
APPENDIX: A CHRONOLOGY OF INSTITUTIONS, EVENTS, AND INDIVIDUALS |
![]() | Notes |
![]() | INDEX |
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• | B |
• | C |
• | D |
• | E |
• | F |
• | G |
• | H |
• | I |
• | J |
• | K |
• | L |
• | M |
• | N |
• | O |
• | P |
• | R |
• | S |
• | T |
• | U |
• | V |
• | W |
• | X |
• | Y |
• | Z |