"The most important study of art in California, particularly in terms of avant-garde activity around mid-century, that I am aware of."--Paul Karlstrom, Smithsonian Institution
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"The most important study of art in California, particularly in terms of avant-garde activity around mid-century, that I am aware of."--Paul Karlstrom, Smithsonian Institution
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Add this copy of Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Poltics in to cart. $8.74, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by University of California Press.
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Color And Black And White Photos. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Unmarked, Clean And Solid Copy. Blue And White Boards With Yellow Lettering On Spine. Minor Shelf Wear. Dj Of A Cat Woman In A Wedding Dress. Minor Shelf Wear.
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Good in Very good jacket. Jacket is lightly worn along edges. Jacket is sunned around edges, not affecting legibility. Cover is lightly sunned and worn along edges. Top corner of front cover is bumped. Spine is shaken and cracked, but binding is secure. Inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.
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Near Fine in Fine Condition jacket. 536 pp., 66 illus. 8 in color. There is a slight pull to the spine, but aside from that, the binding is tight and boards are clean. Dustjacket is crisp and bright, now protected by a Mylar cover. The interior is clean and clear of markings. A landmark study of the visual arts and poetry in California from 1925-1975.
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VG (Ex art library, with sticker on lower DJ and to rear endpaper; DJ is lightly shelfworn/scuffed/smudged; board edges are lightly worn/scuffed/toned; textblock edges have some very light smudging; interior is in excellent condition; binding is solid. ) Black and color-illustrated DJ with colorul lettering; light blue, yellow and black boards with yellow lettering; xxvi, 536 pp.; 8 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated. A landmark study of the visual arts and poetry in California from 1925 to 1975, Utopia and Dissent demonstrates the profound influence this regional culture had not only on the arts but on the shape of American thought. As much an intellectual as a cultural history, the book traces the spread of ideas developed in California's bohemian enclaves before the Second World War into mainstream American society, where they became one of the major currents of 1950s and 1960s counterculturism. The provincial nature of California's prewar arts institutions, Richard Candida Smith shows, forced experimental artists to concentrate on their personal visions. This led to an aesthetics that stressed the importance of personal expression, the struggle to balance the private and public realms, and a view of the creative process as a means of exploring life's deeper mysteries. Most important, the arts became a source for developing new subjective models of the self. All these ideas found expression in the soul-searching of the 1950s "beat generation, " informing a decade-long debate about conformity and the traditional roles of American men and women. By the 1960s, when America seemed to explode with social and political movements-the anti-war protest, sexual liberation, widespread experimentation with drugs and mysticism, the questioning of all forms of authority-California was established as a center of the counterculture and quickly became one of the focal points for a nation struggling to redefine itself. People, many of whom were unfamiliar with the actual poems, novels, paintings and films of the California avant-garde, readily absorbed the ideas these artworks embodied as they crossed the line from a regional arts environment into American popular culture. In charting the history of ideas spawned by California's arts and poetry movements, Richard Candida Smith introduces us to the major figures in those movements, placing them in social and intellectual context and offering fresh analyses of their most important works. Beginning with post-surrealists Helen Lundeberg and Lorser Feitelson, he explores the contribution of writers and artists such as Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Joan Brown, and Wallace Berman. He concludes with an illuminating discussion of poets Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov, whose visions helped shape the discourse of the Vietnam War protest. Breathtaking in the depth of its scholarship, unequalled in scope, Utopia and Dissent will inform discussions of twentieth-century arts, literature, and history in America for many years to come. --DJ.
