Welcome to Painterland
Subtitle: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association
By: Anastasia Aukeman
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780520289451
Subjects: Assemblage (Art); American Arts; Criticism and interpretation; Rat Bastard Protective Association; Artists
Description: "The Rat Bastard Protective Association was an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists who lived and worked in a building they dubbed Painterland in the Fillmore neighborhood of mid-century San Francisco. The artists who counted themselves among the Rat Bastards--these included Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, Michael McClure, and Manuel Neri--exhibited a unique fusion of radicalism, provocation, and community. Geographically isolated from a viable art market and refusing to conform to institutional expectations, their work animated broader social and artistic discussions and over time became a transformative part of American culture."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: California modernism after World War II; title: The art of assemblage, New York-San Francisco; title: Rat Rastards in Painterland; title: Artist-run galleries of the Fillmore; title: The Rat Bastard Protective Association and the making of assemblage; title: "Woodshedding" years: the RBPA into the 1960s.