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Movements
This coffee table book has the history of the Bay Area beat generation , places where the artists exhibited their work and the collaboration between artists, musicians and play wrights. A great history and chronology featuring the important early galleries such as the Six Gallery where Ginsberg read The Howl for the first time.
Authors: Dr. Seymour Howard, Michael McClure, John Natsoulas, Stephanie Wickizer, Rebecca Solnit, Bruce Nixon, John Allen Ryan, Jack Foley
321 pages
Beat
The Beat Generation: Galleries and Beyond
A history of the Bay Area beat generation, places where the artists exhibited their work and the collaboration between artists, musicians and play wrights.
A history of the artists of the West Coast Funk movement. Features biographies of major Funk artists and a Funk chronology.
“Funk art: the art of the absurd, the ridiculous, the exaggerated…Having roots in Bay Area Abstract Expressionism and San Francisco Beat artists, the essence of the Funk movement was bred in TB-9 (Temporary Building 9) on the University of California, Davis campus. Responding to the New York minimalism and completely rejecting academic style, were concerns of the funk art movement. These California and West Coast artists were strongly influenced by the experimentation of the Beat generation, rejecting the stringent nature of minimalism. Their resulting work was overzealous in pursuit of form, color and subject matter. They were unafraid of making “bad” art in forging new paths of discovery.” - John Natsoulas
Authors: John Natsoulas, Susan Landauer, Bruce Nixon, Thea Hudson, Garth Johnson, Mark Van Proyen, Sarah Poisner, Patricia Willers
216 pages
ISBN: 979-889034419-9
Funk
A history of the artists of the West Coast Funk movement. Features biographies of major Funk artists and a Funk chronology.
Next Funk Book edition coming in February, 2025
“A generation of California’s best and most innovative artists were taught experimentation, self-reliance, and contrarinessat UC Davis, providing them and all of us artistic dividends paid to an art world-changing group of painters, sculptors, and ceramacists.” - Dr. Andy Jones
“When Arneson talks about the scale of teh ceramics program – over the course of thirty years, fewer than fifty graduate students concentrating on clay – we see that our sense of the scale of the movement had developed to some degree in retrospect – that it was not large – was never large. But the quality of impact is a function of the focus and intensity of the life inside TB-9, and it spread outward.” - Bruce Nixon
Authors: Susan Landauer, Bruce Nixon, Dr. Andy Jones
170 pages
The Great California Art Movement
“A generation of California’s best and most innovative artists were taught experimentation, self-reliance, and contrariness at UC Davis, providing them and all of us artistic dividends paid to an art world-changing group of painters, sculptors, and ceramacists.”
- Dr. Andy Jones
