Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association

by Anastasia Aukeman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520289455
• ISBN13: 9780520289451
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.2"