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100	1		_aCándida Smith, Richard
245	1	4	_aThe modern moves west : _bCalifornia artists and democratic culture in the twentieth century / _cRichard Cándida Smith
260			_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _cc2009
300			_a252 p. : _billus. ; _c24 cm
490	1		_aThe arts and intellectual life in modern America
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: dilemmas of professional culture -- The case for modern art as a distinct form of knowledge -- Modern art in a provincial nation -- Modern art and California's progressive legacies -- From an era of grand ambitions -- Becoming postmodern -- California assemblage: art as counterhistory -- Learning from the Watts Towers -- Contemporary art along the U.S.-Mexican border -- Conclusion: improvising from the margins.
520			_aIn The Modern Moves West, accomplished cultural historian Richard Candida Smith contends that the Watts Towers provided a model to succeeding California artists that was no longer defined through a subordinate relationship to the artistic capitals of New York and Paris.
546			_aEnglish
650		0	_aArt, American _zCalifornia _y20th century
650		0	_aArt and society _zCalifornia _xHistory _y20th century
830		0	_aArts and intellectual life in modern America
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