Centering Modernism, 31: J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art

by Louise Siddons

During the twentieth century, artists across the United States participated in the modernist movement. But as American modernism evolved during the 1950s and 1960s, the art world likewise changed, narrowing its vision toward large coastal cities such as New York and Los Angeles. As these cities increasingly claimed the avant-garde for themselves, artists from the "flyover" states all but disappeared from the canon of experimental artists. Among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806160330
• ISBN13: 9780806160337
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.1" x 11.3"