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> From: Richard A. Walker <walker@berkeley.edu> > The Modern Moves West: > CALIFORNIA ARTISTS AND DEMOCRATIC CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY > > THURSDAY, 5 > NOVEMBER 2009, 5:30 - 7:00 PM > Tracing the development of abstract painting, assemblage art, and > efforts to build new arts institutions, Cándida Smith lays bare the > tensions between the democratic and > professional sides of modern and contemporary art as California > developed a > distinct regional cultural life. Men and women from groups long > alienated--if not forcibly excluded--from the worlds of "high culture" > made > their way in, staking out their participation with images and objects that > responded to particular circumstances as well as dilemmas of contemporary > life, in the process changing the public for whom art was made. Beginning > with the emergence of modern art in nineteenth-century France and its > influence on young Westerners and continuing through to today's burgeoning > border art movement along the U.S.-Mexican frontier, _The Modern Moves > West_ dramatically illustrates the paths that California artists took > toward a more diverse and inclusive culture. > RICHARD CANDIDA SMITH is Professor of History at the University of > California, Berkeley, and author or editor of several books, > including_ Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California_. > > UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS > 2430 BANCROFT WAY (between Telegraph & Dana) BERKELEY, CA www.universitypressbooks.com > >
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