Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980 : An Illustrated History

Offers a survey of modern painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and murals from the San Francisco area, and provides brief profiles of each artist The Chapters Each Represent A Lecture Presented By Albright And Include Indepth Studies Of Clyfford Still And The Explosion Of Abstract Expressionism, Before The Storm: The Modernist Foundation, The Watershed: Funk, Pop, And Formalism, Back To Nature: The Bay Area Figurative School, Conceptualism, Photorealism, Etc. The Written Word Is Well Illustrated With Selected Examples, But Therein Lies The Only Weakness Of This Book. In An Overview This Solid It Would Be So Much Finer Were There Double The Number Of Examples Of The Artists Being Discussed. Still In All This Is A Magnificent Volume And Should Be A Part Of Every Art Library.--amazon. Before The Storm: The Modernist Foundation -- Clyfford Still And The Explosion Of Abstract Expressionism -- The Golden Years Of Abstract Expressionism -- Back To Nature: The Bay Area Figurative School -- The Beat Era: Bay Area Funk -- The Watershed: Funk, Pop, And Formalism -- Sculpture Of The Sixties -- The Utopian Vision -- Conceptualism -- The Object Reaffirmed: Photo Realism And The New Abstraction -- Personal Mythologies. Thomas Albright. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [325]-330. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived