On the Edge of America
  PREFACE

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART I  THE REGIONAL IMAGINATION
 •The Elusive Quest of the Moderns
 expand sectionPainting Under the Shadow:  California Modernism and the Second World War
 •Politics and Modernism:  The Trial of the Rincon Annex Murals

 collapse sectionPART 2  SOURCES AND TRADITIONS
 •The Impact from Abroad:  Foreign Guests and Visitors
 •Mexican Art and Los Angeles, 1920-1940

 collapse sectionPART 3  EXPRESSING A CULTURAL IDENTITY
 •Wood Studs, Stucco, and Concrete:  Native and Imported Images
 •Early Modernism in Southern California:  Provincialism or Eccentricity?
 collapse sectionJourney Into the Sun:  California Artists and Surrealism
 •Post-Surrealism and the Flux: Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, and Knud Merrild
 •"DADA of Us All": Man Ray in Hollywood
 •Journey into the Body: The Art of Charles Howard
 •Isle of Possibility: Gordon Onslow-Ford and the Dynaton
 •Conclusions and Consequences of Surrealism
 •Visual Music and Film-As-An-Art Before 1950
 expand sectionModernist Photography and the Group f.64

  APPENDIX:  A CHRONOLOGY OF INSTITUTIONS, EVENTS, AND INDIVIDUALS
 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionINDEX
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