On the Edge of America
  PREFACE

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART I  THE REGIONAL IMAGINATION
 •The Elusive Quest of the Moderns
 collapse sectionPainting Under the Shadow:  California Modernism and the Second World War
 •The Scenario of Chaos
 •Disarming Parables: Hans Burkhardt's War Paintings
 •Clay Spohn's Fantastic War Machines
 •The GIs and the Canvas: The Artists of the California School of Fine Arts
 •Conclusion
 •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
 expand sectionModernist Photography and the Group f.64

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