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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872862548 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100557100 02 0872862542 03 9780872862548 15 9780872862548 BC 1 A01 Solnit, Rebecca Rebecca Solnit 01 eng 224 00 224 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Art, Music, Cinema & Drama 24 Internet CL Hierarchy California Writers 01 <P><em>Secret Exhibition </em>chronicles a vital California art movement, focusing on six artists Wallace Bergman, Jess, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hendrick, and George Herms who broke new ground with provocative work, especially in assemblage and mixed-media projects. This important though relatively little-documented 1950s' avant-garde flourished on the West Coast, where the artists were free to create art that was as subversive as it was uncommercial. The story of these artists and their close associates Beat Generation poets, experimental filmmakers, and musicians who were also breaking away from formalism and convention is told here against the backdrop of the Korean and Vietnam wars, postwar growth, and the rise of a vigorous counterculture. With first-hand accounts by writers and artists, passages from letters, poems, and ephemeral publications, <em>Secret Exhibition</em> brings together a complex picture of an exciting era; and more than a hundred illustrations in black and white and color make it a visual record of an essential chapter in contemporary American art.</P> 02 Secret Exhibition chronicles a vital California art movement, focusing on six artists – Wallace Bergman, Jess, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hendrick, and George Herms – who broke new ground with provocative work, especially in assemblage and... 08 "Secret Exhibition is the first book to fully document an era and an art all too often ignored or mythologized in histories of American art after World War II. Solnit succeeds impressively in providing both a well-documented chronicle of an art movement and a fascinating picture of the social and cultural milieu that shaped its artists. An indispensible resource. Whitney Chadwick 08 This documents the moment and historically most important movement in California art. It's a must for those interested in this century's art Dennis Hopper 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100557100/images/87286100557100L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100557100/images/87286100557100S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100557100 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19910601 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 19910601 01 02 17.95 USD