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 |