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 midcentury San Francisco. The artists who counted themselves among the Rat Bastards--which 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, they animated broader social and artistic discussions through their work and became a transformative part of American culture over time. Anastasia Aukeman presents new and little-known archival material in this authorized account of these artists and their circle, a colorful cultural milieu that intersected with the broader Beat scene.
Author: Anastasia Aukeman
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780520289451
ISBN10: 0520289455
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Art & Politics
- Art | History | Contemporary (1945- )
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
Author: Anastasia Aukeman
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780520289451
ISBN10: 0520289455
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Art & Politics
- Art | History | Contemporary (1945- )
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
About the Author
Anastasia Aukeman is an art historian and curator who teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City. She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and written articles and reviews for Art in America, Art on Paper, and ARTnews, among other publications.