Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520289451)

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
ISBN-10: 0520289455
ISBN-13: 9780520289451
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.00d