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?
 expand sectionJourney Into the Sun:  California Artists and Surrealism
 •Visual Music and Film-As-An-Art Before 1950
 collapse sectionModernist Photography and the Group f.64
 •The New Deal, Reporting, and Straight Photography
 •The Origin of Group F.64
 •The Group's Exhibition Statement
 •The Exhibition
 •A New Direction
 •The Group's Aesthetics
 •683 Brockhurst
 •Women in Group f.64
 •Art and Life
 •The Legacy of Group f.64

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