P
Paalen, Wolfgang, 24 -25, 183 , 196 -97, 206 n.38;
the Dynaton, 196 , 198 -299, 207 n.50;
"Farewell to Surrealism," 197 ;
publication of Dyn , 197 -98
Pabst, G. W., 221
Pach, Walter, 122 , 123 -26, 127 ;
"The Greatest American Masters," 124
Pacific Art League (formerly Palo Alto Art Club), 278
Pacific Arts and Crafts News , 275
Pacific Concrete Machinery Co., 144
Pacific Maritime Strike, 70 , 71 , 75 , 77
Pacific Rim, influence of, 196 , 200 , 207 n.54
Pacific Southwest Exhibition (Long Beach), 280
Packard, Emmy Lou, 89
Padilla, Ezequiel, 125
Painters' and Sculptors' Club of Los Angeles, 278
Painters' Club of Los Angeles (later California Art Club), 274 , 275
Painters of the West (Los Angeles), 279
painting: figurative, 118 ;
frescoes, 129 ;
gestural, 14 , 236
Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco), 98
Palo Alto Art Club (later Pacific Art League), 279
Panama California International Exposition (San Diego), 276
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco), 16 n.10, 98 , 161 , 276
Pan-Pacific Auditorium Building (Los Angeles; Wurdeman and Becket), 282
Paradise, Phil, 123 , 166 , 172
Paris International Surrealist Exhibition , 196
Park, David, 57 , 284 , 286
The Parting (Burkhardt), 47 -48
Partridge, Roi, 257 , 260 , 277
Pasadena Art Institute, 279
Pasadena Society of Artists, 279
Pasadena Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, 280
Patchen, Kenneth: Journal of Albion Moonlight , 235
Patterson, H. M.: W. R. McIlwain House (Los Angeles), 148
Paul, Stella, xv
Pelton, Agnes, 160 -61, 281
Pelton Concrete Tile wall, 148
perceptual art vs. cognitive art, 37 n.16
Performing Painter (John Whitney, Crippen, and Pintoff), 238
Perl's Gallery (Los Angeles), 283
Perpetual Possibility (Merrild), 190 , 191
personal world vs. universal laws, 26 -27
Peterson, Sidney: Clinic of Stumble , 234 ;
Henri Rousseau , 238 ;
Horror Dream , 234 ;
The Potted Psalm , 203 , 233 ;
Raoul Dufy , 238 ;
Sharaku , 238
Peyote Candle (Mullican), 198 , 199
Pflueger, Timothy, 104
Phillips, Duncan, 43
Philopolis journal, 92 n.51, 275
Philosophical Research Society, 236
photograph); 243 -49;
camera clubs, 245 , 267 n.2;
documentary, 245 ;
for government reports, 244 -45;
as means of personal expression, 253 ;
pictorialist, 245 -47, 249 , 252 ;
for political purposes, 262 , 263 -64;
and psychology of neglect, 10 ;
Rayographs, 192 , 201 ;
in regional art, 201 ;
straight seeing, 246 -47, 249 (see also Group f.64);
use of light, 262 ;
veracity of, 245
Piano Keys —Lake (Kupka), 236
Piazzoni, Gottardo, 99
Picabia, Francis, 211
Picasso, Pablo: Guernica , 46
Picasso: Forty Years of His Art (Museum of Modern Art), 108
pictorialist photography, 245 -47, 249 , 252
Pictures of Old Chinatown (Genthe), 277
Pintoff, Ernie: Blues Pattern , 238 ;
Performing Painter , 238
Plague Summer (Kessler), 235
Plant and Animal Analogies (Lundeberg), plate 8 , 174
Plante, Michael, 17 n.15
Plaza Art Center (Los Angeles), 127
piein-air painting, 15 n.7
poetry, 23 , 45
Poggioli, Renato, 22
pointillism, 161
politics of art: art as aloof from politics, 107 ;
art for social/political reform, 132 ;
internationalism versus isolationism, 134 ;
leftist orientation of, 191 , 205 n.17;
modernism viewed as communistic, 78 -79;
modernism viewed as un-American, 72 -73, 90 -91n.11;
photography for government reports, 244 -45, 262 , 263 -64;
reaction to World War II, 45 , 46 , 50 ;
surrealism as political revolution, 203 -4n.3
Pollock, Jackson, 13 , 102 -3, 122 , 176 , 277 ;
exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Art, 285 ;
influence of surrealism on, 208 n.64;
training in art, 236 -38
pop art, 201
popular culture, magic in, 31 , 32
populist imagery, 173
Portrait (Berlin), 167 , 168
portraiture, 173
Posada, José Guadalupe: Ministry of Education murals, 130
Postel, Waldo, 77 -78, 82
postimpressionism, 16 n.8, 161 , 167
postmodernism, 1 , 11 , 153 , 167 , 178
postsurrealism, 13 , 282 ;
cognitive association, 24 ;
metaphysical themes of, 184 -85, 204 n.6;
museum exhibitions, 203 n.2;
versus surrealism, 182 , 183 , 184 , 201 , 208 n.58
postwar art. See World War II: art after
Potboiler Art Center (Los Angeles), 278
The Potted Psalm (Broughton and Peterson), 203 , 233
Pound, Ezra, 23 , 37 n.16
Preaching and Farming at Mission Dolores (Refregier), 88
precisionism, 41 , 168 , 169
pre-Columbian-style architecture 141
prefigurative image, 25
Prelude to Spring (Hoffman), 218
Preparedness Day Bombing and Mooney Trial (Refregier), 81
Prestini, James, 112 , 113
Preston Holder (Willard Van Dyke), 250
primitivism, 167
Printmakers of Los Angeles, 276
Printmakers Society of California (Los Angeles), 278
The Progenitors (Howard), plate 10 , 193
progressivism, 15 n.7
Prometheus (Orozco), 73 , 106 , 281
provincialism, 158
Psyche (Markopoulos), 233
psychodramas, 234 -35
psychology, of neglect, 10
Public Buildings Administration, 75 . See also Rincon Annex murals
Public Works, House Committee on: hearings on Refregier's Rincon Annex murals, 69 , 78 -79, 81 -86, 88 -89, 92 nn.39, 49
Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), 72 , 73 , 105 , 282
public works programs (New Deal), 72 . See also specific programs
pueblos, 141
Puthuff, Hanson Duvall, 275
Putzel, Howard, 102 -3, 122 , 181 , 196
PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), 72 , 73 , 105 , 282