The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge

by Thomas Crow

How California's counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped--and was shaped by--West Coast artists The 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069123616X
• ISBN13: 9780691236162
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 10.4"