{"product_id":"the-artist-in-the-counterculture-thomas-crow-9780691236162","title":"The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow California's counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped--and was shaped by--West Coast artists\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period's youth culture, largely incubated in California, on artists who came of age in that decade. As their prime exemplar, Bruce Conner, reminisced, \"I did everything that everybody did in 1967 in the Haight-Ashbury. . . . I would take peyote and walk out in the streets.\" And he vividly channeled those experiences into his art, while making his mark on every facet of the psychedelic movement--from the mountains of Mexico with Timothy Leary to the rock ballrooms of San Francisco to the gilded excesses of the New Hollywood. In \u003ci\u003eThe Artist in the Counterculture\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas Crow tells the story of California art from the 1960s to the 1980s--some of the strongest being made anywhere at the time--and why it cannot be understood apart from the new possibilities of thinking and feeling unleashed by the rebels of the counterculture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCrow reevaluates Conner and other key figures--from Catholic activist Corita Kent to Black Panther Emory Douglas to ecological witness Bonnie Ora Sherk--as part of a generational cohort galvanized by resistance to war, racial oppression, and environmental degradation. Younger practitioners of performance and installation carried the mindset of rebellion into the 1970s and 1980s, as previously excluded artists of color moved to the forefront in Los Angeles. Mike Kelley, their contemporary, remained unwaveringly true to the late countercultural flowering he had witnessed at the dawn of his career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is a major new account of the counterculture's enduring influence on modern art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Crow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 069123616X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691236162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.40h x 7.80w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2022 pg. 107","brand":"Thomas Crow","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059486912767,"sku":"9780691236162","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c4cd2e13-abad-4a5a-a78a-111e29d9948d.jpg?v=1685058522","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-artist-in-the-counterculture-thomas-crow-9780691236162","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}