On the Edge of America

Title: On the Edge of America Author: Paul J Karlstrom ISBN: 9780520088504 Publisher: University of California Press Published: 1996 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Good Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. F 1662472 Publisher Description: To many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the nation. Identified almost exclusively with Hollywood and popular culture, the entire region has been denied a meaningful relationship to mainstream twentieth-century modernism. This groundbreaking collection emphatically challenges that assumption. In essays about California art during the first half of the century, the contributors evoke a culture, now recognizable as modernist, that reflects the ac